A hidey-hole sandwiched between cellphone, DVD, and jewelry stores features Tibetan delights.

This interactive gallery makes you feel like you've stepped into a fantasy world filled with whimsical monsters.

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

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

An eccentric playboy's astounding natural history collection.

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

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

An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.

The library of every book lover's dreams.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

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

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.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

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

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

Become a prohibition rebel.

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

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

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