One of the few Glatt kosher delis in the United States is a cornerstone of its Hasidic neighborhood.

This former water source for the City of Brooklyn is now a thriving natural wetland.

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

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

An institution dedicated to the towering buildings that make up skylines in New York City and around the world.

The only gallery in New York dedicated to olfactory art and the exploration of scent in art.

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

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

Two geoglyphs that are truly unique to North America.

Twelve natural mummies are displayed in the crypt of this former monastery school.

These haunting ruins of a 700-year-old Prehispanic city have witnessed centuries of wars and massacres.

One of the last taxidermists in New York City.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

This Queens beer hall preserves a German culture and language that is all but lost.