A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

Built just after the American Revolution, the oldest row house in New York City still stands in Chinatown.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.

A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

The most confusing clock in New York.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.

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

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

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.