Built just after the American Revolution, the oldest row house in New York City still stands in Chinatown.

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

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

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

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

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

A riverfront park that both remediated and preserved its industrial past.

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

Chefs from Tibet's Kham region offer steaming meat pies and noodle soups in this nook behind a jewelry store.

A former seaside jewel built for the everyman is now simply a neglected art deco fortress.

A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

On this island, you suck away your garbage via an elaborate pneumatic tube system.

The best B-movies filmed on a shoestring budget were born here.

Offbeat arts organization that hosts exhibitions, events, and explorations.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

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.

This mysterious marker puzzles pedestrians and infuriates geographers.