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

Reverend Jen's unique museum/living room showcases her troll collection.

The site where Joe Gallo kept his guns, pet lion, and launched an all out mob war in 1960s Brooklyn.

Currently housing a corporate bank branch this building at the southern tip of Manhattan was once the gateway to luxury vacationing.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

Become a prohibition rebel.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.

A historic 1890s architectural masterpiece with an iconic clock tower that, once open to the public, now faces an uncertain future.

Retribution for death of infamous mob boss Franie Yale was a case of mistaken identity.

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

Visit the site of a subway powered by nothing more than air--and lots of it.

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.

Risk arrest while partying to fund art.

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