This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

This abandoned artificial island off the coast of New York City is now home to dozens of harbor seals.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

A bar, burger joint, and arcade housed in a late 19th-century church building.

An old dining hall now serves up ghost stories for lusty locals.

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

On the top floor of an upscale department store stands a lavish restaurant housed in a replica of a luxury French dining car.

Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.

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

A Ukrainian church canteen doles out hearty fare in an East Village basement.

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

More than 250 sakes are available in an izakaya hidden in the basement of a Midtown office building.

The last remnants of what was once one of the world's grandest hotels can now be found in a Manhattan subway station.

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

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

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

This lavish room at NYC's French Embassy is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

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

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.