Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

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

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

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

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.

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

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

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

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

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

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.