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A ruthless Soviet relocation campaign birthed a new cuisine, and this humble restaurant.

A one-ton statue of Steve Rogers beautifies the entry to a Brooklyn Bed, Bath & Beyond.

Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

This mysterious marker puzzles pedestrians and infuriates geographers.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

A young woman's senseless murder led to the controversial psychological theory of the "bystander effect."

Hidden inside one of the world's most well-visited zoos is a secret plaque promising eternal life.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

This 220-year-old house is a reminder of New York City's Dutch past.

Pulled from the rubble of one of the worst modern tragedies, a steel crossbeam became a symbol of hope for New Yorkers.

Con Edison’s exotic and heat-loving pests.

The last living thing to come out of the rubble after 9/11 is now a symbol of hope and resilience.

Red frames showcase remnants of one of New York's original subway stations.

Brooklyn's Barkaloo Cemetery is the resting place of a scant two bodies.

A retired subway car stands alone in a field in the middle of Queens.

A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.

An abandoned subway tunnel that could have reinvigorated Staten Island still lies somewhere beneath this Brooklyn park.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

Hiroshima survivor on Riverside Drive.

A former connection to City Island, it has been abandoned since the 1930s.

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