Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.

Revolutionary War casualties fill the only 17th century structure remaining in Manhattan.

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

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

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

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

An accidentally hidden library containing the ephemeral history of New York.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

Currently housing a corporate bank branch this building at the southern tip of Manhattan was once the gateway to luxury vacationing.

Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.

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

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

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

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire.