In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

The mosaic Star of David at the front of this store hints that it's no ordinary Italian grocer.

Shop while you wait for a table in this tiny Indonesian eatery within a mini-mart.

Where infamous mobster and leader of Murder Inc. Albert Anastasia made his home.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

This neighborhood grocery houses a treasure trove of Eastern European delights.

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

A Gothic-style abode built to accommodate the church's three resident peacocks.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

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

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

World's largest carved onyx figure stands as a tribute to enduring peace.

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.