You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

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

Ever wanted the laymen's version of your credit card fine print?

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

Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.

The one-time epicenter of American songwriting is now a little remembered Manhattan commercial block.

A plaque immortalizes the spot where the early American spy said his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

Possible relics of the ancient Roman city are hidden in this restaurant's façade.

Church in Manhattan holds the bloody sock of Padre Pio, among with many other unusual relics.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

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

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

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

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

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

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

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