Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

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

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

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

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

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

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

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.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

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

Part modern art project, part traditional chapel, this see-through church is only substantial from the right angle.

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

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

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

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Peek through a transparent pyramid and drink in the mountain made of books.