From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

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

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

The former home of the reclusive "Weird Wendels" who dominated New York real estate a century before Donald Trump.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

A staggering collection of photographs depicting medical, social, and historical change.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

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

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

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

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

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

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

A replica of a 7th-century church hides in plain sight in the middle of the concrete jungle.

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

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

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

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