Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

Gang fights don't just happen on the streets, they happen under them too.

Unlock the secrets of the conjuring arts.

New York's oldest magic store.

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

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

Hear the tales of New York's most notorious criminals.

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

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

NYC's legendary underground network for bovine transportation.

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

The highest point on the island known for buildings that touch the sky.

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

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

Test your business savvy and play the market for cocktails at this stock exchange-inspired watering hole.

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

Site of the first pathological and bacteriological research facility in the United States.

Down a stairway in the East Village, you could once read a plaque describing an alternate history of a fictional version of Manhattan.

A folly built to satisfy a gentleman's bet that he could drive his horses through the eye of a needle.

Once considered the height of medical modernity, this structure is now the oldest remaining component of Roosevelt Hospital.

On the top floor of an upscale department store stands a lavish restaurant housed in a replica of a luxury French dining car.

An accidentally hidden library containing the ephemeral history of New York.