Discover the taste of mold.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

This abandoned caretaker's apartment is one of 13 left in the New York Public Library system.

Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

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

Feral cats keeping the rodent population at bay all across Greenpoint waterfront.

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

This lavish room at NYC's French Embassy is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.

A staggering collection of photographs depicting medical, social, and historical change.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

Those belting out show tunes might not realize this piano bar marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

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