The largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere.

Artistic cabins actually grow deep in the Canadian wilderness.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

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

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.

New York's oldest magic store.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

The famous facade of Grand Central Terminal hides a regulation tennis court, and it's not the first one.

In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.

A graffiti Mecca welcoming artists from around the world.

Hundreds of antique bank vault locks on display in New York City.

This translucent sculpture represents a quintessential component of New York City's skyline.

On the top floor of an upscale department store stands a lavish restaurant housed in a replica of a luxury French dining car.

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.

Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

This nostalgic blast from the grooming past is also a working barbershop.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.