Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

Rat sculptures try to infiltrate the Graybar Building in an architectural tribute to New York City's nautical history.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

The only remaining building in New York to see the inauguration of a president is being slowly overtaken by a grocery store.

The origins of midtown Manhattan's anachronistic wooden farmhouse remain a mystery.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

This study room in the New York Public Library saw the creation of one of contemporary America's greatest traitors.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

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

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

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

Storage warehouse of the rich and famous.

The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.

On this island, you suck away your garbage via an elaborate pneumatic tube system.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Twenty-three trees, each paired with a basalt stone, line a street in Chelsea, continuing an urban project started by German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys.

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

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

This neo-Gothic former auto showroom is one of the few remaining reminders of Brooklyn's "Automobile Row."

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.