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

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

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

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

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

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

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

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

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

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

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