Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

No monkeying around, this fountain was really named after the classic sci-fi film.

A series of fish plaques that are embedded in the malls of Ocean Parkway.

A commemorative plaque hides a door that leads down to the New York Public Library's underground book bunker.

All of the Malaysian sweets at this shop are made daily with a whole lot of love.

Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.

An art installation commemorates journalist Nellie Bly's undercover reporting inside a New York asylum.

On this island, you suck away your garbage via an elaborate pneumatic tube system.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.

This fountain was designed to honor the man who helped bring water to Barcelona.

An early 20th-century bullring converted into a modern shopping center.

This home designed for chocolate magnate Antoni Amatller is an exquisite treasure-box of Catalan Modernism.

One of Antoni Gaudí’s earliest buildings, built between 1886 and 1890 for the industrialist Eusebi Güell.