A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

This vacant church in the Financial District was once the heart of New York's first Syrian immigrant community.

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

Sunset Park's Guatemalan community knows to head to the back of this bodega for a taste of home.

You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.

This Manhattan museum houses one of the largest collections of Spanish art and manuscripts outside of Spain.

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

A Gothic-style abode built to accommodate the church's three resident peacocks.

The most confusing clock in New York.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

In the middle of downtown Brooklyn lies a 165 year old secret hidden right below the surface (closed to the public indefinitely).

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

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

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.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

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