This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

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

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

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

The tiniest little stage in New York.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

Ornate "Renaissance Revival" style building.

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue was made on landfill then deliberately destroyed — apart from one small, obscure block.

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

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

HBO series' stage tucked away in a Greenpoint lot is the largest theatrical set of its kind in the United States.

Offbeat arts organization that hosts exhibitions, events, and explorations.

The most confusing clock in New York.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

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

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.

This New York holdover was built to provide housing for shopgirls and still does not allow men above the lobby.

New York's oldest magic store.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.