This nearly invisible wire transforms much of the city into one big, symbolic home on the holy day.

New York's oldest and possibly grandest keeper of books.

The front yard of an Upper East Side town house hides the last fragment of one of New York's most famous theatres.

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

Once thought to be the fabled Holy Grail, it is now known to be an oil lamp.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

It would take 35 firetrucks to fill this enormous glacial pothole.

Circleville is seriously smitten with this giant gourd.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Need to book a room at the Hotel Pennsylvania? Just dial up 6-5000.

This study room in the New York Public Library saw the creation of one of contemporary America's greatest traitors.

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

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

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

A quick trip around the globe through an amazing miniature exhibit.

A commemorative plaque hides a door that leads down to the New York Public Library's underground book bunker.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

An homage to Jackie Gleason's bus-driving character from 'The Honeymooners.'

Where the legendary Orson Welles got his theatrical start before "Citizen Kane."

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

The best way to get a sneak peek at the movies.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.