This New York holdover was built to provide housing for shopgirls and still does not allow men above the lobby.

The last remnants of what was once one of the world's grandest hotels can now be found in a Manhattan subway station.

Long-forgotten artifacts give incredible insight into New York's most glamorous hotel.

Serving Central Asian breads that range from cracker-crisp to warm and fluffy, this bakery brings Bukhara to Queens.

An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

This abandoned caretaker's apartment is one of 13 left in the New York Public Library system.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

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

This lavish room at NYC's French Embassy is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

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

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

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

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

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

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.

The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.