A scattered trail of street art adds a pop of color to the city's stark structures.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

Amid skyscrapers and traffic exists this unique aquatic ecosystem.

In Little Caribbean, an ice-cream shop serves up regional flavors, including soursop, Irish moss, and "greatnut."

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

The legendary court where emerging basketball players gain their street cred.

What happens here stays here – unless it affects the whole world.

A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.

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

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

The most confusing clock in New York.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

This interactive gallery makes you feel like you've stepped into a fantasy world filled with whimsical monsters.

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

The flagship building of an early national restaurant chain is a superb example of terra cotta art.

Amid the clacking of snooker balls, diners tuck into fiery Bhutanese fare.

In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."