Enter the deli, walk until you hit the taxidermy, then order some hot, homey guisado.

This micro-industry of Latino cuisine along Red Hook's Ball Fields represents a victory in a food fight with the city.

Site of the first pathological and bacteriological research facility in the United States.

Red frames showcase remnants of one of New York's original subway stations.

A hidey-hole sandwiched between cellphone, DVD, and jewelry stores features Tibetan delights.

Underneath the bustling city streets, a hydroponic farm grows unique herbs in an urban oasis.

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

A former connection to City Island, it has been abandoned since the 1930s.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

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

The artist and New York City icon lived, worked and died in this converted carriage house owned by another iconic artist, Andy Warhol.

Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

More than 250 sakes are available in an izakaya hidden in the basement of a Midtown office building.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

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

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."