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

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

Monument to a forgotten NYC disaster that claimed the lives of 1,000.

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

The saddest little diner in New York.

Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.

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

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

This impressive mansion in Vinegar Hill has some mysterious details in its architecture.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

Three-story slide through the New Museum.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

The iconic Manhattan corner that was once the site of the Beastie Boys' fake clothing store.