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

A graffiti Mecca welcoming artists from around the world.

The saddest little diner in New York.

A veritable variety of odds and ends.

Three-story slide through the New Museum.

A working metal shop and venue for outrageous art and music shows in a former cannonball factory.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

These sculptures were designed to beautify this neighborhood when it was established in the 1940s.

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

An eerie diorama that captures the majestic nature of a few prehistoric-looking beasts.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

Get to know the plant-based fare of Chinese Buddhist monks.

The only subway station in the city that still makes use of gap fillers.

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.