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

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

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

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York's only fraction of a street.

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

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

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

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

New York's oldest magic store.

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

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

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

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

A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.

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

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

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

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