On this island, you suck away your garbage via an elaborate pneumatic tube system.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

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

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

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

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

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York's only fraction of a street.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

Peek through the gates at this oasis from the city, full of Old English charm.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

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

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

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

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

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

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

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.