Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

Where you can hail your favorite fictional commanders-in-chief.

When it opened during the final years of the embargo, all the drinks and cigars were free.

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.

Supremely flaky treats await at Amadou Ly’s boulangerie and patisserie.

A touching tribute to the "Queen of Soul."

Dine on old-school red sauce fare at a former mob hang out and film set for The Sopranos.

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

The famous facade of Grand Central Terminal hides a regulation tennis court—and it's not the first one.

Play heads or tails with thousands of different coins.

A famous songsmith's custom piano, dubbed "High Society," is hidden just out of sight in one of New York's finest hotels.

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

What happens here stays here – unless it affects the whole world.

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

Those belting out show tunes might not realize this piano bar marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.

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

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

New York's oldest and possibly grandest keeper of books.

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

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

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.