A Collegiate Gothic quadrangle that surrounds an 18th century secondary school whose financing came from the likes of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, among others.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

HBO series' stage tucked away in a Greenpoint lot is the largest theatrical set of its kind in the United States.

An 1883 schoolhouse now home to collective of artists.

The Underground Railroad passed right through this historic Brooklyn Heights church.

A mysterious, abandoned building rotting on the Brooklyn waterfront.

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

A ruthless Soviet relocation campaign birthed a new cuisine, and this humble restaurant.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

A quiet and contemplative oasis in the middle of New York's bustle and riot.

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

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

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

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

This massive oak tree has ties to the first native tribes of the region and the founders of Texas.

A free, canine-friendly alternative watering hole near the more famous Barton Springs.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

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

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.

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

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.