Possible relics of the ancient Roman city are hidden in this restaurant's façade.

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York's only fraction of a street.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

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

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

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

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

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

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

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

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.

A 19th-century Baja cantina that many say is the birthplace of the margarita.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.