This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

These historic buildings once housed the headquarters of one of the most infamous gangs of New York.

The artist and New York City icon lived, worked and died in this converted carriage house owned by another iconic artist, Andy Warhol.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

This 220-year-old house is a reminder of New York City's Dutch past.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

Once thought to be the fabled Holy Grail, it is now known to be an oil lamp.

A Yiddish theater turned movie house turned rock and roll landmark turned gay disco turned bank.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

This Manhattan skyscraper is a reminder of the brief but glorious age of urban air taxis.

Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

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

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.

The highest rapid transit station in the world.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.