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

The studio of influential composer Charles Ives is perfectly reconstructed, hidden in the back of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

A young woman's senseless murder led to the controversial psychological theory of the "bystander effect."

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

Serving Central Asian breads that range from cracker-crisp to warm and fluffy, this bakery brings Bukhara to Queens.

Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

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

Hear the tales of New York's most notorious criminals.

More than 250 sakes are available in an izakaya hidden in the basement of a Midtown office building.

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

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

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

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

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

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

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.