Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

The highest rapid transit station in the world.

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

An everyday Jackson Heights bodega conceals a Mexican seafood paradise.

This once sprawling resort now sits abandoned, filled with graffiti and vibrant colors from an era long passed.

This Frank Lloyd Wright summer house was designed along Lake Erie as a retreat for a client's wife.

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

This edgy museum will whet your appetite for the industrial history of Western New York.

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

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

This hidden oasis features a stunning view of the Hudson River and the Palisades from a castle-like museum.

This New York estate was designed to resemble a medieval Scottish castle.

Take a trip back to the 1950s and the heyday of the road trip along Historic Route 20.

An allegedly haunted testament to a local businessman's desire for status, posterity, and charity.

This exhibit allows visitors to wander through the interior of a replica Ice Age glacial cave.

A beautiful, historic location open to the public.

This island castle contains enough secret passageways to support a season of Scooby-Doo episodes.

A physical catalog of ceramics made by the now-defunct Celadon Terra Cotta company.

A small Second Empire-style building is one of only seven remaining lighthouses on the Hudson River.

A waterway covered over after the Industrial Revolution has been unearthed and cleaned up, for the enjoyment of fish and humans alike.

This elaborate High Victorian Gothic structure is one of the world's few 16-sided buildings.