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

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

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

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

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

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

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

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

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

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.