The Mexican painter Diego Rivera created this unusual museum to display his collection of pre-Hispanic artifacts.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

This tiny store is your one-stop shop for all sorts of rare and wonderful buttons.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

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

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

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

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

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

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

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

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

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

A band of aerialists and circus performers putting on incredible shows in East Williamsburg.

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