This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

Test your business savvy and play the market for cocktails at this stock exchange-inspired watering hole.

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

The one-time office of the architectural firm that ushered in the Gilded Age is now a Club Monaco.

Some of the best Persian food in New York comes from the front window of an unassuming pizza shop.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

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

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

Amid skyscrapers and traffic exists this unique aquatic ecosystem.

Behind a grungy bodega facade, a Poblano family serves rich, home-cooked meals.

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

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

The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

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

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

After surviving abandonment, this powerful Latin American mural is alive again.

New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.

An aptly-named street near the birthplace of the modern LGBT rights movement.

The best way to get a sneak peek at the movies.

Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.