Cooks at this tiny takeout spot grind their rice flour in a stone mill each morning for perfect cheung fun.

Surrounded by low rise buildings and partially converted into an auto body shop, this marble archway is the only vestige of a forgotten Manhattan estate.

The origins of midtown Manhattan's anachronistic wooden farmhouse remain a mystery.

Hiroshima survivor on Riverside Drive.

This recipe is set in stone.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

This Russian bar-restaurant lies within a three-story underground bathhouse.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

This lavish room at NYC's French Embassy is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

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

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

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

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

The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.

The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.

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

The meteor that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs landed at this site, one of the largest impact craters in the world.