This Russian bar-restaurant lies within a three-story underground bathhouse.

NYC's legendary underground network for bovine transportation.

Manhattan's deadly West Side railroad, which killed hundreds of New Yorkers, is remembered by this simple plaque.

The former home of the reclusive "Weird Wendels" who dominated New York real estate a century before Donald Trump.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

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

A staggering collection of photographs depicting medical, social, and historical change.

Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue was made on landfill then deliberately destroyed — apart from one small, obscure block.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

New York's oldest magic store.

Join in a Seance at the Swedenborgian Church.

Revolutionary War casualties fill the only 17th century structure remaining in Manhattan.

Unlock the secrets of the conjuring arts.

A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.

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

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

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

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

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

This 220-year-old house is a reminder of New York City's Dutch past.