Home to a dizzying array of letterpress blocks with a rich history.

Established in 1937, the oldest candy shop in New York City boasts a rainbow-colored inventory that would make Willy Wonka envious.

A young woman's senseless murder led to the controversial psychological theory of the "bystander effect."

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Take in a rare, face-to-face glimpse of Lady Liberty at this tucked away Red Hook park.

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

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

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

This Russian bar-restaurant lies within a three-story underground bathhouse.

Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.

Discover the taste of mold.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

More than 250 sakes are available in an izakaya hidden in the basement of a Midtown office building.