This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.

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

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

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

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

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.

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

Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

These ornate manhole covers were used for a now-forgotten purpose.

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

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

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

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

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

Hidden behind a gate in Greenwich Village is a little farmhouse that once served as the writing studio of a bestselling author.

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

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

Those belting out show tunes might not realize this piano bar marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

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.