Once a dumping spot, now a park with a kayak launch.

A group dedicated to promoting boating, kayaking and environmental education programs.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

Storage warehouse of the rich and famous.

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

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

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

One of the last taxidermists in New York City.

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

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

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

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Con Edison’s exotic and heat-loving pests.

Once called Winthrop Park in 1889, home to a decidedly sexy tribute to the Monitor vs. Merrimac battle.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

Where Greenpoint's first European settler—and troublemaker—made his home.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

Down a stairway in the East Village, you could once read a plaque describing an alternate history of a fictional version of Manhattan.

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

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

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

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.