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

A massive art collective tries a new take on Brooklyn's DIY music scene—by making it fully legal.

A graffiti Mecca welcoming artists from around the world.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

The lesser-known Alice sculpture of Central Park dedicated to the “godmother of American children.”

The only subway station in the city that still makes use of gap fillers.

This miniature village stays behind in the Breuer Building, even as the museums around it come and go.

This outdoor gallery of sculptures along the East River was once a landfill.

The highest rapid transit station in the world.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

A former seaside jewel built for the everyman is now simply a neglected art deco fortress.

The largest known open fault in the United States is basically a giant natural refrigerator.

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

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

A retired subway car stands alone in a field in the middle of Queens.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

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

The most confusing clock in New York.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...