Built as a gift to the hottest tastemaker of the time, these hidden quarters remain an Art Deco showpiece.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

New York's oldest and possibly grandest keeper of books.

Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

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

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

An arcade packed with a rotating collection of unique independent video games.

The loneliest island in New York.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

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.

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

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

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

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

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

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.