Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

A massive art collective tries a new take on Brooklyn's DIY music scene—by making it fully legal.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

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

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

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

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

The "Seinfeld" diner.

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

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

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

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

These enlarged egg sculptures represent the native birds of eastern Iceland.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

This collection of unique liquids allows visitors to wander the waters of Iceland's glaciers.

A formerly glacier-tipped volcano that inspired none other than Jules Verne.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.