Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

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

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

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

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

The most confusing clock in New York.

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

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

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.

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

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

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

New York's oldest magic store.

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 terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.