The largest guitar store in the world has been visited by some of music's all-time greats passing through upstate New York.

This Manhattan museum houses one of the largest collections of Spanish art and manuscripts outside of Spain.

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.

An unassuming nature trail winds through dozens of tiny houses built for the wee people.

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

Some of New York's best tacos can be found in the back of an unassuming bodega in Queens.

Western New York's largest independent bookstore doubles as a historical repository of all things Niagara Falls.

"Call for the doctor, call for the nurse... Vote!! said the lady with the alligator purse."

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

The floor-to-ceiling collection in an old factory is a unique alternative to stuffy galleries.

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.

A collaborative art project that transformed a neighborhood in NYC's Queens.

The largest known open fault in the United States is basically a giant natural refrigerator.

The remains of what was once the world's steepest passenger funicular.

The oldest pastificio in Queens offers visitors fresh noodles and a peek inside the macaroni-making magic.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.

This art center is way beyond your average pumpkin-carving operation.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.