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

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

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

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

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

The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

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

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

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

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

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

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

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

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.