One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

Become a prohibition rebel.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

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

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

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

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

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

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

Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

This castle-like building in Manhattan helped destigmatize cancer in the 19th century.

A simple midtown bar was once the home of a secretive and exclusive club staffed by "bunnies" under Hefner's strict rules.

Possible relics of the ancient Roman city are hidden in this restaurant's façade.

The iconic Manhattan corner that was once the site of the Beastie Boys' fake clothing store.

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

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.