A prohibition era watering hole for the police.

A museum collection honoring the long history of the FDNY is held in a disused Manhattan fire house.

Cheap pizza and all of your naughty bedroom needs housed in a stunning example of Art Nouveau architecture.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

One kilometer of thick brass rod laid out before your eyes.

This lavish room at NYC's French Embassy is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

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

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

Down a stairway in the East Village, you could once read a plaque describing an alternate history of a fictional version of Manhattan.

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

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

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

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

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

A staggering collection of photographs depicting medical, social, and historical change.

Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.