A huge resale shop for the cast-offs of the film & television industry.

Come for the sustainable organic chocolate, stay for the sustainable organic booze.

A museum devoted to bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories through exhibitions, education and public programming.

A commemorative plaque hides a door that leads down to the New York Public Library's underground book bunker.

The only gallery in New York dedicated to olfactory art and the exploration of scent in art.

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.

Long-forgotten artifacts give incredible insight into New York's most glamorous hotel.

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.

The last remnants of what was once one of the world's grandest hotels can now be found in a Manhattan subway station.

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

An extensive collection of fine art devoted to man's best friend.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

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

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

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

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.

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

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

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

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.