This Soviet-era athletic and recreation facility is the highest ice skating rink in the world.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.

Play heads or tails with thousands of different coins.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

This simple Manhattan salt house is artfully shaped... well, like a giant granule of salt.

Twenty-three trees, each paired with a basalt stone, line a street in Chelsea, continuing an urban project started by German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys.

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

Manhattan's deadly West Side railroad, which killed hundreds of New Yorkers, is remembered by this simple plaque.

Cooks at this tiny takeout spot grind their rice flour in a stone mill each morning for perfect cheung fun.

The impeccably spiced roast pork buns at this bakery are worth the wait.

Slurp sesame noodles at the third-generation family-run establishment that invented them.

All of the Malaysian sweets at this shop are made daily with a whole lot of love.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

The former home of the reclusive "Weird Wendels" who dominated New York real estate a century before Donald Trump.

Where the legendary Orson Welles got his theatrical start before "Citizen Kane."

Stunningly detailed mosaics in a New York subway station bring life to the Weimaraners of artist William Wegman's work—and to thousands of commutes.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

Red frames showcase remnants of one of New York's original subway stations.

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

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.

The only remaining building in New York to see the inauguration of a president is being slowly overtaken by a grocery store.

The origins of midtown Manhattan's anachronistic wooden farmhouse remain a mystery.