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

"Leave a He-Man, Take a Transformer" and share a story about your real-life superhero.

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

Monument to a forgotten NYC disaster that claimed the lives of 1,000.

The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

Those belting out show tunes might not realize this piano bar marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

This 150-year-old train station and caboose have been turned into a railroad museum, enjoyed by young and old alike.

The highest point in New Jersey is marked by a massive, if simply named, obelisk.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.