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

A garment factory hides a small Dominican eatery in the hallway to its freight elevator.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

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

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

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 world’s largest collection of Tiffany glass sits in a warehouse in Queens.

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

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

The iconic Chicago sculpture hides a beautiful and easily overlooked plaque on the backside.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

The oldest Dutch colonial stone house in New York City is a hidden gem on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.

Retribution for death of infamous mob boss Franie Yale was a case of mistaken identity.

A community theatre in Brooklyn that brings Country to New York and New York to Country.

New York's oldest concrete structure is being preserved thanks to the gentrification of Whole Foods.

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

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.

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

Oldest surviving example of a Dutch saltbox frame house in America.

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