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

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

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

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

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

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

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

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

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

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

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

Become a prohibition rebel.

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

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

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

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

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

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.