Ride the subways of yesteryear.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

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

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

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

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

The most confusing clock in New York.

New York's oldest magic store.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Hundreds of antique bank vault locks on display in New York City.

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

Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

Red frames showcase remnants of one of New York's original subway stations.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world's largest chess board.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.