Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

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

Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

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

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic’s missed arrival.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

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

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.