Architectural Oddities in Manhattan

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

The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.

A replica of a 7th-century church hides in plain sight in the middle of the concrete jungle.

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

Rat sculptures try to infiltrate the Graybar Building in an architectural tribute to New York City's nautical history.

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

There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.

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

This simple Manhattan salt house is artfully shaped... well, like a giant granule of salt.

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

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

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

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

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.

Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

Possible relics of the ancient Roman city are hidden in this restaurant's façade.