Once a month, an Indonesian feast appears inside an Elmhurst church hall.

A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.

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

On this island, you suck away your garbage via an elaborate pneumatic tube system.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

Site of the first pathological and bacteriological research facility in the United States.

Chefs from Tibet's Kham region offer steaming meat pies and noodle soups in this nook behind a jewelry store.

Pulled from the rubble of one of the worst modern tragedies, a steel crossbeam became a symbol of hope for New Yorkers.

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

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

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

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

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

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.

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

A well-worn marker in a forgotten alleyway is all that remains of what had been one of Manhattan's most beautiful buildings.

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

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

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.

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.

This humble historic facade hides a history of boozing and the gentlemanly sport of rat-fighting.