Three stories above you, your salad is being grown.

The cuisine at this Sheepshead Bay spot tells the story of a displaced Muslim Chinese community.

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

Underneath the bustling city streets, a hydroponic farm grows unique herbs in an urban oasis.

Serving Central Asian breads that range from cracker-crisp to warm and fluffy, this bakery brings Bukhara to Queens.

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.

Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

Offbeat arts organization that hosts exhibitions, events, and explorations.

Waterway populated with abandoned projects, including a submarine.

More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.

Feral cats keeping the rodent population at bay all across Greenpoint waterfront.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

A quiet and contemplative oasis in the middle of New York's bustle and riot.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

Join in a Seance at the Swedenborgian Church.

More than 250 sakes are available in an izakaya hidden in the basement of a Midtown office building.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

Final resting place of two dozen New York City harbor ships.

This lavish room at NYC's French Embassy is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.