The home of one of America's most beloved fictional characters has become a real world landmark.

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

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

This mysterious marker puzzles pedestrians and infuriates geographers.

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

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

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

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

An arcade packed with a rotating collection of unique independent video games.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

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

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

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

A tree full of wishes and footwear.

This small road tunnel is the only place where you can cross beneath the Erie Canal.

A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.