The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

The Vatican of the movie industry turned into an actual church.

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

Captain America, Sub-Mariner, and the Human Torch were all born in this art deco Manhattan masterpiece.

Some of New York's best tacos can be found in the back of an unassuming bodega in Queens.

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.

Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.

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

Discover the taste of mold.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

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

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

One of the last full-orchestra recording studios in New York City and an acoustical marvel.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

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

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.