The mummified relics of an American missionary.

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

Discover the taste of mold.

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

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

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

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

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

A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.

There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.

A staggering collection of photographs depicting medical, social, and historical change.

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

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

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

This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

More than 250 sakes are available in an izakaya hidden in the basement of a Midtown office building.

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

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