This roadside shrine to an unofficial saint has welcomed the wishes and prayers of local believers for generations.

This slender three-story building has also had several famous residents.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

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.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.

There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

The only National Monument ever to go missing for nearly 50 years then resurface in a dump.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.