A Manhattan office building is home to the world's largest chess board.

A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.

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

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

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

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.

This interactive gallery makes you feel like you've stepped into a fantasy world filled with whimsical monsters.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

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

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

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

Since 1956, this quintessentially New England seafood shack has been boiling its lobsters in seawater over wood fires.

This museum explores the history of policing and is also home to a very popular taxidermied duck.