2,000 barrels of aging beer hidden in a warehouse at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

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

Chefs from Tibet's Kham region offer steaming meat pies and noodle soups in this nook behind a jewelry store.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

Those belting out show tunes in this West Village piano bar might not realize it marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

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

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

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

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

Alexander Hamilton’s creation caused quite a bit of controversy.

Contrary to popular belief, this secluded statue doesn't represent Pennsylvania's founder.

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

Yo, Adrian!

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Abandoned figurines adorn a small plot on the side of a craft market's entrance.

Resembling a 15th century medieval fortress, this home once belonged to a legend of Mexican cinema.

Some charming, but sadly, unloved animal statues call this park home.

A fabulously bizarre surrealist sculpture by the late artist Leonora Carrington.

The extremely grey columns of one of Mexico City's most iconic beltways are slowly gaining a bit of color.

The collection of intricate sculptures includes one carved from a mammoth's tusk