New York City's smallest piece of private property.

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

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

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

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

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

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

A museum devoted to bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories through exhibitions, education and public programming.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

Once a ferry dock, radio transmitter, and now a new Greenpoint park.

A yoga studio and venue for "chill-out parties" in a former chicken slaughterhouse.

Neoclassical bank designed by NY architects Helmle & Huberty.

Spike Lee's provocative film is officially honored right where it was made, the first time a work of art was used as a secondary street name.

This neo-Gothic former auto showroom is one of the few remaining reminders of Brooklyn's "Automobile Row."

The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

A huge resale shop for the cast-offs of the film & television industry.

Brooklyn's Barkaloo Cemetery is the resting place of a scant two bodies.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.