Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

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 storybook European village in Berkeley.

This collection of hand fans doubles as a history of femininity.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

From buttons to beads, flounces to fripperies, this textile museum and shop honors the history of needlework.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

Nose around a unique collection of more than 300 natural aromas used to craft perfume fragrances.

This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.