The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

New York's oldest magic store.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

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

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

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

A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.

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

This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

Come for the sustainable organic chocolate, stay for the sustainable organic booze.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

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

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

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.