The oldest café in Montevideo preserves its history as the city's bohemian hub.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

This ruined fort hidden at the top of Central Park can't seem to keep from losing its historical plaques.

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

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

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

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

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

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

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

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

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

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

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

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

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

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

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

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

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

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