Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world's largest chess board.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

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

A grand New York post office that is home to mailman Santas, scraps of postal history, and a pneumatic mail system.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.

This monument to a veteran of the Mexican-American War is one of only two in Manhattan that serve as an actual mausoleum.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

Red frames showcase remnants of one of New York's original subway stations.

The most confusing clock in New York.

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