“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

A band of aerialists and circus performers putting on incredible shows in East Williamsburg.

Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

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

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

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

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

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

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.