A ruthless Soviet relocation campaign birthed a new cuisine, and this humble restaurant.

A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.

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

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

The Underground Railroad passed right through this historic Brooklyn Heights church.

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

Haven for steampunks.

This neighborhood grocery houses a treasure trove of Eastern European delights.

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

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

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

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

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

Volunteer-run library dedicated to exploring five decades of activism history.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

The last slot car racing arcade in Brooklyn is keeping the dream of speedy little autos alive.

The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.