Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

Medical history museum featuring a lovely doctor's office from the 1800s.

A collection of Witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

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

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

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

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

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

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

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

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

The most confusing clock in New York.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

The artwork commemorates the many ways 20th-century people perished while on the clock.