Play heads or tails with thousands of different coins.

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

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

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

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world's largest chess board.

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

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

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

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

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

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

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

A quiet and contemplative oasis in the middle of New York's bustle and riot.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.