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

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.

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

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

Peek through the gates at this oasis from the city, full of Old English charm.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

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

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

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

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

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

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

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

A huge resale shop for the cast-offs of the film & television industry.

A museum devoted to bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories through exhibitions, education and public programming.

Neoclassical bank designed by NY architects Helmle & Huberty.

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.