A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.

A famous songsmith's custom piano, dubbed "High Society," is hidden just out of sight in one of New York's finest hotels.

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

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

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

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

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

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.

Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

Hear the tales of New York's most notorious criminals.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

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

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."

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

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

A historic 1890s architectural masterpiece with an iconic clock tower that, once open to the public, now faces an uncertain future.

The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.

New York's oldest and possibly grandest keeper of books.

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

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