Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.

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.

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

The best way to get a sneak peek at the movies.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

A touching tribute to the "Queen of Soul."

Amid skyscrapers and traffic exists this unique aquatic ecosystem.

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

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.

The last living thing to come out of the rubble after 9/11 is now a symbol of hope and resilience.

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

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

A community theatre in Brooklyn that brings Country to New York and New York to Country.

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

A working metal shop and venue for outrageous art and music shows in a former cannonball factory.

The highest rapid transit station in the world.

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

The mass grave of a heroic Revolutionary War regiment sits below an empty lot near the Gowanus Canal.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.