The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

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

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

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

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

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

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

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.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

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

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

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

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

A former connection to City Island, it has been abandoned since the 1930s.

The first "Hall of Fame" in America was designed by legendary Gilded Age architect Stanford White for what was then the NYU uptown campus.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

The loneliest island in New York.

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

These ancient sacred grounds granted amnesty to those who managed to reach them.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawai'i.