Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

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

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

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

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

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

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

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

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

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

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

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

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

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

New York's oldest magic store.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

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