You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

Once considered the height of medical modernity, this structure is now the oldest remaining component of Roosevelt Hospital.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

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

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

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

Play heads or tails with thousands of different coins.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

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

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

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

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

A fantastic place to see murals, and an important location in the history of Toronto's legal street art scene.

Town full of spiritualists, some of whom are mediums, is still in full swing after 130 years.

This mill on Lake Erie appears to shrink as a viewer approaches thanks to an optical illusion.

Where one of the worst train disasters in the country took place, leading to upgrades in rail safety.

This impressive working clock made of 16,000 plants changes its flowers twice a year.