The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

Discover the taste of mold.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

A Natural History and Science Emporium.

Check your calendars; you might be attending a drive-in movie or sitting next to a fashion runway.

For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.

A Bed-Stuy gymnasium that hosts expansive raves, performances, dance parties, and more.

Haven for steampunks.

Three-story slide through the New Museum.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

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

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.

A riverfront park that both remediated and preserved its industrial past.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

Here be dragons.

This striking arch, one of the first architectural elements constructed in Prospect Park, was recently restored to its original glory.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

This Queens beer hall preserves a German culture and language that is all but lost.

The oldest living organism in New York City. Maybe.

This giant boulder is sandwiched between apartment complexes in upper Manhattan.

Where the four original members of the Ramones hung out and revolutionized punk rock.

Take in a rare, face-to-face glimpse of Lady Liberty at this tucked away Red Hook park.