Depression-era fun lives on in this Harlem museum dedicated to the sport of the street.

A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.

A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.

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

This nostalgic blast from the grooming past is also a working barbershop.

Ever wanted the laymen's version of your credit card fine print?

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

This Manhattan museum houses one of the largest collections of Spanish art and manuscripts outside of Spain.

Play heads or tails with thousands of different coins.

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

A museum collection honoring the long history of the FDNY is held in a disused Manhattan fire house.

Behind a grungy bodega facade, a Poblano family serves rich, home-cooked meals.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

An extensive collection of fine art devoted to man's best friend.

Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

The iconic Manhattan corner that was once the site of the Beastie Boys' fake clothing store.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

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

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.