A unique book shop with a collection of rare tomes and a nostalgia museum.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

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.

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

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

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

An unassuming 13-acre park is home to over 12,000 roses.

The entrance to this sinisterly named tunnel hides behind a Tim Hortons.

An Irish Memorial commemorating those who perished due to potato blight.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Yo, Adrian!

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.