Legendary private island in the Bronx...devoid of rats.

This museum dedicated to the history of the medical bone trade and human osteology.

Where infamous mobster and leader of Murder Inc. Albert Anastasia made his home.

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

This eclectic sculpture garden in Brooklyn, home to a bizarre collection of art, was once a run-down junkyard.

The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

An unconventional space for art and science housed in a massive old warehouse.

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

Collect holy water from a Bronx grotto.

An 1883 schoolhouse now home to collective of artists.

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

This New York holdover was built to provide housing for shopgirls and still does not allow men above the lobby.

This slender three-story building has also had several famous residents.

At this hidden studio, the dying art of taxidermy is alive and well.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

The Vatican of the movie industry turned into an actual church.

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

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

Cheap pizza and all of your naughty bedroom needs housed in a stunning example of Art Nouveau architecture.

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

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.