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

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

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

Become a prohibition rebel.

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

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

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

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

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

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

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

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

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

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

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