Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

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

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

New York's oldest and possibly grandest keeper of books.

The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.

The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

A WWI fighter plane and turn-of-the-century penny candy shop are among the unexpected features of this Financial District building.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

Unlock the secrets of the conjuring arts.