New York City's smallest piece of private property.

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

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world's largest chess board.

A famous songsmith's custom piano, dubbed "High Society," is hidden just out of sight in one of New York's finest hotels.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

New York's oldest and possibly grandest keeper of books.

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

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

Rat sculptures try to infiltrate the Graybar Building in an architectural tribute to New York City's nautical history.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

A gardener's enduring labor of love is spread throughout a small Vermont town.

The largest lake in the Faroe Islands seems to be held hundreds of feet above sea level thanks to an optical illusion.

Corn-inthian columns with a uniquely American take on neoclassical architecture.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.