A beautiful, historic location open to the public.

Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.

An off the grid woodland retreat that harkens back to days long forgotten.

The place where Dvořák composed some of his most famous works.

These small stands sell Malian snacks to worshippers and passersby after Friday prayers in Harlem.

Built as a home for the Union Porcelain magnate in 1867, now the Greenpoint Reformed Church and home to a ceramic mystery.

A controversial magical figure is hidden within a diorama of the city.

Twenty-three trees, each paired with a basalt stone, line a street in Chelsea, continuing an urban project started by German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys.

A mysterious statue of a leather jacket-clad rebel leans coolly on an odd yellow clock.

The studio of influential composer Charles Ives is perfectly reconstructed, hidden in the back of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Depression-era fun lives on in this Harlem museum dedicated to the sport of the street.

The humble fort that saved Washington.

This family-owned bakery is one of the last places in Brooklyn to sell the Nation of Islam–inspired bean pie.

A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.

Sunset Park's Guatemalan community knows to head to the back of this bodega for a taste of home.

One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

Explore the evolution of printing technology, from cuneiform to Kindle.

A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.

This statue commemorates the meeting of the most influential minds of the women’s rights movement.

Deliciousness abounds at a Guatemalan restaurant masquerading as a pizzeria.

A one-ton statue of Steve Rogers beautifies the entry to a Brooklyn Bed, Bath & Beyond.

A former poultry store that looks like a giant duck and is one of the "seven wonders" of Long Island.

The largest guitar store in the world has been visited by some of music's all-time greats passing through upstate New York.