Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

This lavish room at NYC's French Embassy is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

NYC's legendary underground network for bovine transportation.

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

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

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

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

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

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

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

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

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.