Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

This neighborhood grocery houses a treasure trove of Eastern European delights.

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

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

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

A WWI fighter plane and turn-of-the-century penny candy shop are among the unexpected features of this Financial District building.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

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

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

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

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.

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

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

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

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

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

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