High Fives are our editors' top-five picks of things to do, see, and experience in New York City. Whatever you're thirsting after, the categories and descriptions will help you extract the sweetest juice from the Big Apple.

Our High Fives categories are:

Five Must-See Attractions

Five Must-Visit Museums

If You Only Have 48 Hours: Five Must-Do's

With Kids? Five Things You Can't Miss

Five Shopping Musts

WHAT
FAO Schwartz
767 5th Ave. (at 58th St.)

Tel: 212-644-9400
Subway N/R to 5th Ave.

WHY
Because it’s huge and has just about everything. And because its displays are just so Big Apple.

WHEN
As a reward for being relatively quiet while you toured the Guggenheim on 89th St. or Bloomingdale’s on 59th St.

WHAT
American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at W.79th St.

Tel: 212-769-5100

Subway B or C to 81st St.

WHY
The dinosaur collection, the new Hayden Planetarium, the IMAX theater.

WHEN
Closed on Mondays. Opens at 10:00 am. Go after breakfast, before a picnic in the park (get your picnic together at Zabar’s on Broadway at W.80th St.)

WHAT
Ponycabs
517 Broome St. (at Thompson St.)
Tel: 212-766-9222

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Subway C/E to spring St.

WHY
An experience to share with one parent or two. A close-up look at the city streets pulled by your personal cyclist-chauffeur.

WHEN
On your way through SoHo and Chinatown (pause at the Chinatown Ice Cream Factory) to the South Street Seaport Museum and The Beast speedboat.

WHAT
The Beast Speedboat
Pier 16, South Street Seaport

Tel: 212-563-3200

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Ponycab or Subways 4/5, 2/3, A/C to Fulton St.

WHY
A real scream (they encourage it) for the slightly older kid who wants to be shaken at high speed in these very nifty boats.

WHEN
On a hot summer afternoon when the rush of oxygen will wake the whole family up.

WHAT
Osh Kosh B’Gosh
586 5th Ave. (betw. 47th and 48th Sts.)
Tel: 212-827-0098

Subway B/D/F to 47th-50th St.-Rockefeller Center

WHY
There’s no more rugged clothing for kids.

WHEN
On a shopping morning, before Rockefeller Center and the promise of the Disney Store in Times Square.