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

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

A Gothic-style abode built to accommodate the church's three resident peacocks.

This small New York museum celebrates the mountainous artwork of a Russian mystic.

This ruined fort hidden at the top of Central Park can't seem to keep from losing its historical plaques.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

Peek through the gates at this oasis from the city, full of Old English charm.

No monkeying around, this fountain was really named after the classic sci-fi film.

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

A playground the size of a city block is a modernist monument to civic values and public housing.

A mysterious statue of a leather jacket-clad rebel leans coolly on an odd yellow clock.

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

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

A Natural History and Science Emporium.

The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head after a deadly duel can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.

The oldest pastificio in Queens offers visitors fresh noodles and a peek inside the macaroni-making magic.

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

Serving Central Asian breads that range from cracker-crisp to warm and fluffy, this bakery brings Bukhara to Queens.

This nostalgic blast from the grooming past is also a working barbershop.

Even for Egyptian royalty, the afterlife was bring-your-own-beef.

A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.

Shop while you wait for a table in this tiny Indonesian eatery within a mini-mart.

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