Sip a cappuccino in the historic cafe that introduced them to the United States.

This theater opened in 1998, but both the building and the puppeteers who perform there have a distinguished history.

The place where Dvořák composed some of his most famous works.

Slurp sesame noodles at the third-generation family-run establishment that invented them.

Here be dragons.

This Upper East Side apartment co-op was designed as a tuberculosis sanitarium.

The studio of influential composer Charles Ives is perfectly reconstructed, hidden in the back of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.

The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.

A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.

A replica of a 7th-century church hides in plain sight in the middle of the concrete jungle.

Site of the first pathological and bacteriological research facility in the United States.

This 220-year-old house is a reminder of New York City's Dutch past.

Established in 1937, the oldest candy shop in New York City boasts a rainbow-colored inventory that would make Willy Wonka envious.

This castle-like building in Manhattan helped destigmatize cancer in the 19th century.

The only gallery in New York dedicated to olfactory art and the exploration of scent in art.

Manhattan's deadly West Side railroad, which killed hundreds of New Yorkers, is remembered by this simple plaque.

Revolutionary War casualties fill the only 17th century structure remaining in Manhattan.

Hidden behind a gate in Greenwich Village is a little farmhouse that once served as the writing studio of a bestselling author.

Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.

Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

This Manhattan museum houses one of the largest collections of Spanish art and manuscripts outside of Spain.