Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

An aptly-named street near the birthplace of the modern LGBT rights movement.

A touching tribute to the "Queen of Soul."

Home to a dizzying array of letterpress blocks with a rich history.

The best way to get a sneak peek at the movies.

The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.

A playground the size of a city block is a modernist monument to civic values and public housing.

The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.

A small piece of the composer's New York home lives on in the center of Czech culture in Manhattan.

The place where Dvořák composed some of his most famous works.

New York City's first Modernist house.

The mysterious image is believed to show Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, in a beautiful blue dress.

Here be dragons.

The only gallery in New York dedicated to olfactory art and the exploration of scent in art.

A commemorative plaque hides a door that leads down to the New York Public Library's underground book bunker.

Even for Egyptian royalty, the afterlife was bring-your-own-beef.

This simple Manhattan salt house is artfully shaped... well, like a giant granule of salt.

A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.

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

This humble historic facade hides a history of boozing and the gentlemanly sport of rat-fighting.

Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.

One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.

Built just after the American Revolution, the oldest row house in New York City still stands in Chinatown.

Hidden behind a gate in Greenwich Village is a little farmhouse that once served as the writing studio of a bestselling author.