The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

The site where Joe Gallo kept his guns, pet lion, and launched an all out mob war in 1960s Brooklyn.

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

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

The mass grave of a heroic Revolutionary War regiment sits below an empty lot near the Gowanus Canal.

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

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

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

Check out the underground party scene at the "Burning Man of Brooklyn."

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

This was one of the first (and last) university-built and operated nuclear reactors.

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

Haven for steampunks.

Visit the site of a subway powered by nothing more than air--and lots of it.

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

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