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

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

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

Home on the Hillside, and home of the first breakfast cereal.

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

A quiet and contemplative oasis in the middle of New York's bustle and riot.

Comprehensive gaming collection of over 30,000 electronic games and consoles.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

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

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

This once luxurious Catskills resort is now a haunting ruin.

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

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

For over 80 years, Mayan ruins stood proudly in a most unlikely location.

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."