A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

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

A working metal shop and venue for outrageous art and music shows in a former cannonball factory.

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

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

In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.

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

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world's largest chess board.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

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

Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.

The most confusing clock in New York.

More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

The artist and New York City icon lived, worked and died in this converted carriage house owned by another iconic artist, Andy Warhol.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.