A large circus museum with summer performances.

This centuries-old gothic monster has been converted into a sprawling, glossy bookstore.

This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.

This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

Sip coffee and talk politics at this landmark cafe in Astoria's Little Egypt, a contender for the title of America's first hookah bar.

A graffiti Mecca welcoming artists from around the world.

An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.

This outdoor gallery of sculptures along the East River was once a landfill.

No monkeying around, this fountain was really named after the classic sci-fi film.

A former seaside jewel built for the everyman is now simply a neglected art deco fortress.

The best B-movies filmed on a shoestring budget were born here.

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

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

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

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

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

Come for the sustainable organic chocolate, stay for the sustainable organic booze.

A museum devoted to bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories through exhibitions, education and public programming.

One of the largest public housing complexes in New York once visited by Eleanor Roosevelt.

The site of a fallen tree that protected Americans from British forces during the American Revolution.

This elaborate tunnel is the first structure composed of cast concrete in the United States.

The inventor of the Coney Island hot dog rests in a grand mausoleum in Brooklyn.