This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

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

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

This 220-year-old house is a reminder of New York City's Dutch past.

Monument to a forgotten NYC disaster that claimed the lives of 1,000.

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

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

New York City's first Modernist house.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

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

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.

A quiet and contemplative oasis in the middle of New York's bustle and riot.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.