Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Those belting out show tunes might not realize this piano bar marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

Dine on old-school red sauce fare at a former mob hang out and film set for The Sopranos.

Enter the deli, walk until you hit the taxidermy, then order some hot, homey guisado.

Sunset Park's Guatemalan community knows to head to the back of this bodega for a taste of home.

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

A no-frills cinephile haven known for showing offbeat, underseen films.

This neighborhood grocery houses a treasure trove of Eastern European delights.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

Volunteer-run library dedicated to exploring five decades of activism history.

An arcade packed with a rotating collection of unique independent video games.

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Pull up and have a drink at a museum filled with hundreds of years worth of shipwreck artifacts.

A miniature city, once ruled by the Queen of the Netherlands.