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

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

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

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

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

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.

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

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

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

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

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

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

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

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

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

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.