This Orthodox Church's exterior is rather unorthodox.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

This 19th century brick building in Brooklyn stands out like the anachronistic landmark that it is.

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

Headquarters of the world's fourth largest Hasidic sect and the first of many "770s" around the world.

Dedicated to preserving the history of free Black communities in Brooklyn and beyond.

A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.

This slender three-story building has also had several famous residents.

Once a month, an Indonesian feast appears inside an Elmhurst church hall.

The last slot car racing arcade in Brooklyn is keeping the dream of speedy little autos alive.

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

Once thought to be the fabled Holy Grail, it is now known to be an oil lamp.

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

Here be dragons.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

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

This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.

This morbid scene depicts the Darwinian drama of death on the African savannah.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.