Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.

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

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

The oldest pastificio in Queens offers visitors fresh noodles and a peek inside the macaroni-making magic.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

One of the last taxidermists in New York City.

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

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

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

Waterway populated with abandoned projects, including a submarine.

In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

A famous songsmith's custom piano, dubbed "High Society," is hidden just out of sight in one of New York's finest hotels.

A prohibition era watering hole for the police.

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

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

The first "Hall of Fame" in America was designed by legendary Gilded Age architect Stanford White for what was then the NYU uptown campus.

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

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

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.