This tiny store is your one-stop shop for all sorts of rare and wonderful buttons.

A veritable variety of odds and ends.

A huge resale shop for the cast-offs of the film & television industry.

A partially hidden wall graffitied by spectators of the 1976 Bicentennial, recently rediscovered.

On the top floor of an upscale department store stands a lavish restaurant housed in a replica of a luxury French dining car.

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

This preserved wilderness hides the remains of a colonial grain mill used to feed George Washington's troops.

This abandoned artificial island off the coast of New York City is now home to dozens of harbor seals.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

An activist who committed her life to peace and women's suffrage.

The pioneering photographer's prints are immortalized inside her childhood home.

Rare moles meet activism at this Oaxacan eatery.

A community farm in the midst of the Brooklyn concrete.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

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

A community theatre in Brooklyn that brings Country to New York and New York to Country.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

Guerilla gardeners reclaimed this abandoned railroad land literally putting down roots.

Hidden inside one of the world's most well-visited zoos is a secret plaque promising eternal life.

This neighborhood grocery houses a treasure trove of Eastern European delights.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

A young woman's senseless murder led to the controversial psychological theory of the "bystander effect."