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Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

One of the last full-orchestra recording studios in New York City and an acoustical marvel.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

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

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

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.