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

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

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

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

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

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

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

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

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

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

The "Seinfeld" diner.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

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

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

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.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.