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

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

A no-frills cinephile haven known for showing offbeat, underseen films.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

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

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

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

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

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

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

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.