Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

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.

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

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

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

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

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

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

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