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

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

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

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

Reverend Jen's unique museum/living room showcases her troll collection.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

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

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

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

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

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

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

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

Become a prohibition rebel.

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

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

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.

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

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

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

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

New York's oldest magic store.