A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

Cheap pizza and all of your naughty bedroom needs housed in a stunning example of Art Nouveau architecture.

A Gothic-style abode built to accommodate the church's three resident peacocks.

For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.

This hidden oasis features a stunning view of the Hudson River and the Palisades from a castle-like museum.

A ruthless Soviet relocation campaign birthed a new cuisine, and this humble restaurant.

Walking around West Harlem reveals a scavenger hunt of beautiful bird murals.

A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

The one-time epicenter of American songwriting is now a little remembered Manhattan commercial block.

This neighborhood grocery houses a treasure trove of Eastern European delights.

A working metal shop and venue for outrageous art and music shows in a former cannonball factory.

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

The artist and New York City icon lived, worked and died in this converted carriage house owned by another iconic artist, Andy Warhol.

The iconic Manhattan corner that was once the site of the Beastie Boys' fake clothing store.

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

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

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

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.