While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

New York City's first Modernist house.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.

A ruthless Soviet relocation campaign birthed a new cuisine, and this humble restaurant.

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

This Manhattan museum houses one of the largest collections of Spanish art and manuscripts outside of Spain.

Where the four original members of the Ramones hung out and revolutionized punk rock.

An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

This Russian bar-restaurant lies within a three-story underground bathhouse.

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.

Behind a grungy bodega facade, a Poblano family serves rich, home-cooked meals.

A forgotten relic from New York's bygone trolley system hides in plain sight under a bridge.

This translucent sculpture represents a quintessential component of New York City's skyline.

Hidden inside one of the world's most well-visited zoos is a secret plaque promising eternal life.

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

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

Serving Central Asian breads that range from cracker-crisp to warm and fluffy, this bakery brings Bukhara to Queens.

This castle-like building in Manhattan helped destigmatize cancer in the 19th century.

Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.