A Manhattan office building is home to the world's largest chess board.

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

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

A staggering collection of photographs depicting medical, social, and historical change.

Hundreds of antique bank vault locks on display in New York City.

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

Hear the tales of New York's most notorious criminals.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

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

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

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

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

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

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

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.