The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

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

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.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

Become a prohibition rebel.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

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

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

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

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

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

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

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

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

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

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

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

A giant mascot, a car bomb, and the mafia mingle in the history of a defunct restaurant chain.