From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

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

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

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

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

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

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

Become a prohibition rebel.

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

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

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

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

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

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