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

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

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

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

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

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

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

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

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."

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

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Discover the taste of mold.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

A colorful kitschy temple and floating market off the beaten path.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

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

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

Acres of salt crystal pyramids dry in the sun along Thailand's "salt road."