The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

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

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

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

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

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

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

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

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.

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

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

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

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

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

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

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

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

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

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.