A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

Sip coffee and talk politics at this landmark cafe in Astoria's Little Egypt, a contender for the title of America's first hookah bar.

A graffiti Mecca welcoming artists from around the world.

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

A temple belonging to the largest Buddhist order in South Korea nestled in the middle of New York City.

Some of New York's best tacos can be found in the back of an unassuming bodega in Queens.

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

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

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

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

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

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

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

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 final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

This Bronx apartment building is officially recognized as the birthplace of hip-hop.

A basement pool hall is the front for some of the best Dominican food in New York City.

Final resting place of Typhoid Mary.