Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

Hidden inside one of the world's most well-visited zoos is a secret plaque promising eternal life.

Collect holy water from a Bronx grotto.

Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.

For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.

Some of the best Persian food in New York comes from the front window of an unassuming pizza shop.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.

This hidden oasis features a stunning view of the Hudson River and the Palisades from a castle-like museum.

Nope, not Washington Irving's house.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.

Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

This study room in the New York Public Library saw the creation of one of contemporary America's greatest traitors.

Those belting out show tunes might not realize this piano bar marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

The one-time epicenter of American songwriting is now a little remembered Manhattan commercial block.

Possible relics of the ancient Roman city are hidden in this restaurant's façade.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.