Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

Though the case is scorched and the buttons half-melted, this hardy handheld gaming device can still run a game of Tetris.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

One of the last taxidermists in New York City.

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

Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.

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

Check out the underground party scene at the "Burning Man of Brooklyn."

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

An arcade packed with a rotating collection of unique independent video games.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."