A retired oil tanker now offering amazing views of New York City.

The cuisine at this Sheepshead Bay spot tells the story of a displaced Muslim Chinese community.

An unconventional space for art and science housed in a massive old warehouse.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

A temple belonging to the largest Buddhist order in South Korea nestled in the middle of New York City.

This family-owned bakery is one of the last places in Brooklyn to sell the Nation of Islam–inspired bean pie.

The inventor of the Coney Island hot dog rests in a grand mausoleum in Brooklyn.

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

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

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

A large boulder marks the place where the island of Manhattan was purportedly "sold" to the Dutch.

The world's largest rotating world.

The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.

An institution dedicated to curiosity, logic, riddles, and Mongolia's long history of puzzles.

Legendary private island in the Bronx...devoid of rats.

Once a dumping spot, now a park with a kayak launch.

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

Once a ferry dock, radio transmitter, and now a new Greenpoint park.

Queen Anne style apartment house built in 1886.

The only remaining Jewish congregation in Greenpoint.

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.