The artist and New York City icon lived, worked and died in this converted carriage house owned by another iconic artist, Andy Warhol.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

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

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

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

Currently housing a corporate bank branch this building at the southern tip of Manhattan was once the gateway to luxury vacationing.

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

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

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

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

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

This elegant Colombian fortress was one of the torture headquarters for the Spanish Inquisition.

Haven for Cape Fur Seals, until the Ring of Death of jumping Great White Sharks arrives.

Formerly known as the Malay Quarter, Bo Kaap is a colorfully-painted suburb located in the “Mother City” of South Africa.

There is only one place in the world where the corners of four nations come together.

A unique seaside cave where Aleister Crowley faked his own death.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.