A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

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

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

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

The last remnants of what was once one of the world's grandest hotels can now be found in a Manhattan subway station.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

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

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

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

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

Discover the taste of mold.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

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.

A historic 1890s architectural masterpiece with an iconic clock tower that, once open to the public, now faces an uncertain future.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

Headquarters of the world's fourth largest Hasidic sect and the first of many "770s" around the world.

Now the site of a high school, this was almost the location of the largest cathedral in the US.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

Risk arrest while partying to fund art.