"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

From this desk Al Hirschfeld drew his influential caricatures of the 20th century's Broadway stars.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

The home of one of America's most beloved fictional characters has become a real world landmark.

On this island, you suck away your garbage via an elaborate pneumatic tube system.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

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

This abandoned caretaker's apartment is one of 13 left in the New York Public Library system.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

Need to book a room at the Hotel Pennsylvania? Just dial up 6-5000.

The one-time epicenter of American songwriting is now a little remembered Manhattan commercial block.

What happens here stays here – unless it affects the whole world.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

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

A famous songsmith's custom piano, dubbed "High Society," is hidden just out of sight in one of New York's finest hotels.

The last remnants of what was once one of the world's grandest hotels can now be found in a Manhattan subway station.

A prohibition era watering hole for the police.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

The most confusing clock in New York.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.