This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

This hidden oasis features a stunning view of the Hudson River and the Palisades from a castle-like museum.

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

There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

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

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

A Ukrainian church canteen doles out hearty fare in an East Village basement.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

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

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

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

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

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

The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

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

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

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

Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.