A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

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

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

Unlock the secrets of the conjuring arts.

The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

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

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

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

New York's oldest magic store.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

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

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

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

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

The iconic statue was moved to a new spot overlooking the James river after several years as a mascot for the local baseball team.