Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

Dedicated to preserving the history of free Black communities in Brooklyn and beyond.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.

The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

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

A staggering collection of photographs depicting medical, social, and historical change.

An extensive collection of fine art devoted to man's best friend.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

In the middle of downtown Brooklyn lies a 165 year old secret hidden right below the surface (closed to the public indefinitely).

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

Haven for steampunks.

A century-old magnolia tree is the only living landmark tree in New York City.

An illegally built ramshackle mansion tucked in the middle of Brooklyn is now being turned into condominiums.

Steam out your ears for New Year's Eve.