This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

Landmark Chicago building narrowly avoided destruction.

Pizza with a side of fine art.

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.

A long lost multi-cultural music venue used to reside in the bottom floor of Chicago's Flat Iron Building.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

The former sign of this immortal music venue is just that--undying.

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

One kilometer of thick brass rod laid out before your eyes.

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

Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.

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.

A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.

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

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

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

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