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

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

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

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

A partially hidden wall graffitied by spectators of the 1976 Bicentennial, recently rediscovered.

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

Home to a vast and influential collection of Shakespeareana.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

The unique traffic pattern named for an influential urban planner is also known as the Pedestrian Scramble.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

This lonely waterfront memorial to the men of the Titanic was erected by the "Women of America."

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

The FBI's urban training course may have the highest fake crime rate in the world.

An enormous warehouse filled with parade floats collected from over 50 years of patriotic celebrations.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.