Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.

Traversing steep Alpine slopes, this engineering marvel is one of the longest and highest funiculars in the world.

The steepest classic funicular in the world glides along a dizzying incline.

One of the last full-orchestra recording studios in New York City and an acoustical marvel.

New York City's only wildlife rehabilitation center treats more than 3,000 feathered and furry patients each year.

At this hidden studio, the dying art of taxidermy is alive and well.

Some of the best Persian food in New York comes from the front window of an unassuming pizza shop.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

The loneliest island in New York.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.