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

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.

Check out the underground party scene at the "Burning Man of Brooklyn."

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

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

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

Townhouse facade doubles as an RMS Titanic Memorial.

Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.

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

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

A band of aerialists and circus performers putting on incredible shows in East Williamsburg.

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

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

Collect holy water from a Bronx grotto.

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

This outdoor gallery of sculptures along the East River was once a landfill.

Hidden inside one of the world's most well-visited zoos is a secret plaque promising eternal life.

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

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

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

Sip coffee and talk politics at this landmark cafe in Astoria's Little Egypt, a contender for the title of America's first hookah bar.