This tiny store is your one-stop shop for all sorts of rare and wonderful buttons.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

On the top floor of an upscale department store stands a lavish restaurant housed in a replica of a luxury French dining car.

A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.

Those belting out show tunes might not realize this piano bar marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

Hear the tales of New York's most notorious criminals.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

Become a prohibition rebel.

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

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

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

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A grotesque Fiji merman dwells within this traditional Dutch-style building.

A desiccated merman and a walrus penis bone are among the oddities in this eclectic collection of shipwreck treasures.

In 1787, a group of delegates met at this very spot to drink, be merry, and ratify the Constitution of the United States.

This collection of odd proofs of concept is like taking a walk through the imagination of a Victorian engineer.

This splendid Versailles-inspired mansion has the largest French-style formal gardens in North America.

Hundreds of antiquated typewriters and office machinery show the technological evolution of business.

The taxidermy remains of the most popular pony in children's literature.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.