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

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

This elaborate tunnel is the first structure composed of cast concrete in the United States.

The last standing puppet theater on Long Island.

This edgy museum will whet your appetite for the industrial history of Western New York.

Three gardens with toilets and urinals filled with bright flowers started as a protest against zoning rules.

This family-owned bakery is one of the last places in Brooklyn to sell the Nation of Islam–inspired bean pie.

This overlooked gem outside Niagara Falls preserves and celebrates Iroquois culture.

Fossilized sea bottom and lime quarry.

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.

Two mermen, eternally spitting into each other's mouths.

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

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

Sunset Park's Guatemalan community knows to head to the back of this bodega for a taste of home.

Once a month, an Indonesian feast appears inside an Elmhurst church hall.

A ruthless Soviet relocation campaign birthed a new cuisine, and this humble restaurant.

A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.

Chefs from Tibet's Kham region offer steaming meat pies and noodle soups in this nook behind a jewelry store.

Eight whimsical acres of metal art.

An everyday Jackson Heights bodega conceals a Mexican seafood paradise.

Shop while you wait for a table in this tiny Indonesian eatery within a mini-mart.

The cuisine at this Sheepshead Bay spot tells the story of a displaced Muslim Chinese community.

A world of whimsy and wonder aboard a one of a kind historic landmark vessel.

Deliciousness abounds at a Guatemalan restaurant masquerading as a pizzeria.