Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

The origins of midtown Manhattan's anachronistic wooden farmhouse remain a mystery.

This Manhattan museum houses one of the largest collections of Spanish art and manuscripts outside of Spain.

A crumbling staircase in upper Manhattan is all that remains of one of the most important sites in sports history.

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

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

This small New York museum celebrates the mountainous artwork of a Russian mystic.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

A prohibition era watering hole for the police.

Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.

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

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

Con Edison’s exotic and heat-loving pests.

At this hidden studio, the dying art of taxidermy is alive and well.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.