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

New York City's only wildlife rehabilitation center treats more than 3,000 feathered and furry patients each year.

Site of the first pathological and bacteriological research facility in the United States.

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

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

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

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

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

The lantern carried by the infamous Guy Fawkes when he was arrested while attempting to blow the houses of Parliament and the King of England to smithereens

The spot where three Protestant clergymen were burned at the stake during the reign of "Bloody Mary."

This Norman castle was once the site of a Victorian-era prison, and now exists as a luxury hotel.

Inside this church is an obscure piece of art carved by the famous Alice Liddell.

The fantastic charm of England's oldest botanical garden has made it a place of writerly inspiration for centuries.

An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.