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

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

New York's oldest magic store.

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

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

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

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.