Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.

One of the few Glatt kosher delis in the United States is a cornerstone of its Hasidic neighborhood.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

This painted marvel is San Francisco's 400-foot ode to urban biking.

The longest continuously operating Elk's Lodge in the country.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

This nearly invisible wire transforms much of the city into one big, symbolic home on the holy day.

A Gothic-style abode built to accommodate the church's three resident peacocks.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

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

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

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

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

Oldest Museum of the Netherlands is a true cabinet of curiosities.

A Dutch passageway's artistic, aquatic-themed makeover pays tribute to the capital city's famed waterways.