A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

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

Where the four original members of the Ramones hung out and revolutionized punk rock.

Once a flowing stream and where the USS Monitor, the world's first ironclad, was built and launched.

“Wagon Jobber" turned smokehouse magnate's family-owned business is still going strong 100 years later.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

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

A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.

The home of one of America's most beloved fictional characters has become a real world landmark.

This New York holdover was built to provide housing for shopgirls and still does not allow men above the lobby.

Where the legendary Orson Welles got his theatrical start before "Citizen Kane."

Captain America, Sub-Mariner, and the Human Torch were all born in this art deco Manhattan masterpiece.

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

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

This Queens hospital has stood abandoned for almost 20 years after its patients were secretly relocated in the dead of night.

This outdoor gallery of sculptures along the East River was once a landfill.

A former seaside jewel built for the everyman is now simply a neglected art deco fortress.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

A replica of a 7th-century church hides in plain sight in the middle of the concrete jungle.

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.