New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

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.

A Yiddish theater turned movie house turned rock and roll landmark turned gay disco turned bank.

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

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

Monument to a forgotten NYC disaster that claimed the lives of 1,000.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

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

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

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

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

An 1883 schoolhouse now home to collective of artists.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

Historic Greenpoint theater turned roller disco, then chain pharmacy, and now Sweetgreen.

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

Queen Anne style apartment house built in 1886.