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

A basement pool hall is the front for some of the best Dominican food in New York City.

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

Small monoliths of several varieties of stone sit alongside a wooded path in the Bronx.

A former connection to City Island, it has been abandoned since the 1930s.

This abandoned caretaker's apartment is one of 13 left in the New York Public Library system.

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

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

Members of Congress have traveled between the buildings on Capitol Hill for a century hidden from tourists, press, and storm clouds.

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