Down this yellow brick road, visitors are treated to toadstool houses and massive mushroom sculptures.

This 47-story "M" needed 20 years to be completed

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.

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

Outstanding collection of 19th century medical instruments includes a life-size figure cast from as many as 200 cadavers.

At 1,732 feet above sea level, this spectacularly isolated yet surprisingly bustling bar is the highest pub in Britain.

An underwater restaurant, surrounded by a coral reef.

Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.

Take an underground boat ride through a former hydraulic raceway that was built in the late 19th century.

This exhibit allows visitors to wander through the interior of a replica Ice Age glacial cave.

One of the last taxidermists in New York City.

This Buffalo museum hides an Art Deco gas station designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.

In Little Caribbean, an ice-cream shop serves up regional flavors, including soursop, Irish moss, and "greatnut."

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

Sunset Park's Guatemalan community knows to head to the back of this bodega for a taste of home.

A young woman's senseless murder led to the controversial psychological theory of the "bystander effect."

Head past the aisles of tropical fruit and imported candy at this bodega to discover a hidden, weekends-only taco stand.

An everyday Jackson Heights bodega conceals a Mexican seafood paradise.