This New York holdover was built to provide housing for shopgirls and still does not allow men above the lobby.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

Cheap pizza and all of your naughty bedroom needs housed in a stunning example of Art Nouveau architecture.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

Hiroshima survivor on Riverside Drive.

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

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

The most confusing clock in New York.

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

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

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.