A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

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

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

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

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

Become a prohibition rebel.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

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."

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

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

The only remaining building in New York to see the inauguration of a president is being slowly overtaken by a grocery store.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

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 block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.

This unassuming retro burger joint was billed as “diner of the future” at the 1939 World's Fair.