A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

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

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

A graffiti Mecca welcoming artists from around the world.

The most confusing clock in New York.

A veritable variety of odds and ends.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

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 name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

The iconic Manhattan corner that was once the site of the Beastie Boys' fake clothing store.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.