While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

One kilometer of thick brass rod laid out before your eyes.

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

The most confusing clock in New York.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

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

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

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

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

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

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

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.