A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

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

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

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

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

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

A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

New York's oldest magic store.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

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

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.