It was once used as a classroom to teach mining skills to local high school students.

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.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

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

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

A band of aerialists and circus performers putting on incredible shows in East Williamsburg.

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

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

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

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York's only fraction of a street.

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

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

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

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

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

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.