The former home of the reclusive "Weird Wendels" who dominated New York real estate a century before Donald Trump.

A young woman's senseless murder led to the controversial psychological theory of the "bystander effect."

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

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.

This Manhattan museum houses one of the largest collections of Spanish art and manuscripts outside of Spain.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

This New York holdover was built to provide housing for shopgirls and still does not allow men above the lobby.

Micro-distillery in Brooklyn produces New York’s first homemade rum since Prohibition.

Hidden inside one of the world's most well-visited zoos is a secret plaque promising eternal life.

The front yard of an Upper East Side town house hides the last fragment of one of New York's most famous theatres.

A prohibition era watering hole for the police.

A plaque immortalizes the spot where the early American spy said his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

This recipe is set in stone.

A museum collection honoring the long history of the FDNY is held in a disused Manhattan fire house.

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

The last living thing to come out of the rubble after 9/11 is now a symbol of hope and resilience.

Join in a Seance at the Swedenborgian Church.

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.

Cheap pizza and all of your naughty bedroom needs housed in a stunning example of Art Nouveau architecture.

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.