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

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

Some of the earliest burial grounds of New York State are to be found hidden away in this quaint town.

Spies, love letters, and ghost stories have all left their mark on this home-cum-museum.

Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.

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

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

This once-grand marvel of engineering is now 41 miles of scenic hiking trail.

The most confusing clock in New York.

The only subway station in the city that still makes use of gap fillers.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

An homage to Jackie Gleason's bus-driving character from 'The Honeymooners.'

Stunningly detailed mosaics in a New York subway station bring life to the Weimaraners of artist William Wegman's work—and to thousands of commutes.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

This monument to a veteran of the Mexican-American War is one of only two in Manhattan that serve as an actual mausoleum.

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

A former seaside jewel built for the everyman is now simply a neglected art deco fortress.

This 19th-century clock has been restored to help withstand the harsh environment of its seaside home.

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

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

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

If it hadn't been caught in time, a flaw in the design of this Manhattan skyscraper could have led to its collapse.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.