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

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

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

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

Walk over a 150 year old manhole.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

A hidden architectural treasure in New York's Brooklyn.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.