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Depression-era fun lives on in this Harlem museum dedicated to the sport of the street.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

Snack on a partially gestated duck egg.

Feast on some of the finest momos in all of Queens.

A hidey-hole sandwiched between cellphone, DVD, and jewelry stores features Tibetan delights.

An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.

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

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The artist and New York City icon lived, worked and died in this converted carriage house owned by another iconic artist, Andy Warhol.

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

The place where Dvořák composed some of his most famous works.

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

Venture into the past with an unlisted exhibit hall featuring extinct birds.

The Fabric Workshop and Museum showcases fabric and mixed media work by artists of great international renown as well as local and outsider artists.

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

A "Bugseum" dedicated to all things insect-related resides behind a pest control company.

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

A small museum packed with specimens from important fossil sites and minerals from historical pegmatite quarries.

Large Massachusetts museum dedicated to Armenian history and culture.

Located in a beautifully restored ice house, this museum is the result of decades of hard work and devotion to the craft of plumbing.