This hidden oasis features a stunning view of the Hudson River and the Palisades from a castle-like museum.

Shop while you wait for a table in this tiny Indonesian eatery within a mini-mart.

Brooklyn vintners creating world-class wine in a city not known for its vineyards.

Rare moles meet activism at this Oaxacan eatery.

Small monoliths of several varieties of stone sit alongside a wooded path in the Bronx.

An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

An unconventional space for art and science housed in a massive old warehouse.

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

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

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

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

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

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

In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

What happens here stays here – unless it affects the whole world.

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

This interactive gallery makes you feel like you've stepped into a fantasy world filled with whimsical monsters.

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

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

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