Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

The oldest continuously operating farm in New York State.

A collaborative art project that transformed a neighborhood in NYC's Queens.

Offbeat arts organization that hosts exhibitions, events, and explorations.

The most radioactive spot in New York City can also fix your muffler.

An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.

The oldest Dutch colonial stone house in New York City is a hidden gem on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.

Try an original egg cream at this museum located inside one of the last surviving old-fashioned seltzer factories in America.

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

This former water source for the City of Brooklyn is now a thriving natural wetland.

Out of a labyrinth of abandoned tunnels and stops, this Queens subway station is arguably the most mysterious—if it exists at all.

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

The graveyard holds the remains of Irish immigrants who arrived in Queens after fleeing the Great Famine.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

How a century-old glass factory in Queens became a concert venue and arts center.

Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.

Some of New York's best tacos can be found in the back of an unassuming bodega in Queens.

This Queens beer hall preserves a German culture and language that is all but lost.

A mysterious statue of a leather jacket-clad rebel leans coolly on an odd yellow clock.

This Peruvian-Chinese institution has perfected the art of rotisserie chicken—alongside plantains and lo mein.

The oldest living organism in New York City. Maybe.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.