Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

The former home of the reclusive "Weird Wendels" who dominated New York real estate a century before Donald Trump.

A grand New York post office that is home to mailman Santas, scraps of postal history, and a pneumatic mail system.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

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

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

The most confusing clock in New York.

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

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

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

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

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

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

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