Once a dumping spot, now a park with a kayak launch.

The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

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

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

Three stories above you, your salad is being grown.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

Become a prohibition rebel.

Long-forgotten artifacts give incredible insight into New York's most glamorous hotel.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

Check your calendars; you might be attending a drive-in movie or sitting next to a fashion runway.

Three-story slide through the New Museum.

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.