Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

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

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

This New York florist also sells traditional tofu pudding.

This Queens beer hall preserves a German culture and language that is all but lost.

A Yiddish theater turned movie house turned rock and roll landmark turned gay disco turned bank.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

A no-frills cinephile haven known for showing offbeat, underseen films.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

The iconic Manhattan corner that was once the site of the Beastie Boys' fake clothing store.

Once a flowing stream and where the USS Monitor, the world's first ironclad, was built and launched.

This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.

The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.

Behind a grungy bodega facade, a Poblano family serves rich, home-cooked meals.

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

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

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

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

One Brooklyn man's collection of life-size fiberglass statues has taken over his entire yard.

A hidden architectural treasure in New York's Brooklyn.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.