Ride the subways of yesteryear.

The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.

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

New York's oldest magic store.

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

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

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

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

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

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.