Become a prohibition rebel.

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

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

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

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

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

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

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

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

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

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