This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

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

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

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

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

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

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

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

A grand New York post office that is home to mailman Santas, scraps of postal history, and a pneumatic mail system.

NYC's legendary underground network for bovine transportation.

An homage to Jackie Gleason's bus-driving character from 'The Honeymooners.'

An aptly-named street near the birthplace of the modern LGBT rights movement.

The home of one of America's most beloved fictional characters has become a real world landmark.

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

Twenty-three trees, each paired with a basalt stone, line a street in Chelsea, continuing an urban project started by German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys.

New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.

Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue was made on landfill then deliberately destroyed — apart from one small, obscure block.

Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.

Hidden behind a gate in Greenwich Village is a little farmhouse that once served as the writing studio of a bestselling author.

Manhattan's deadly West Side railroad, which killed hundreds of New Yorkers, is remembered by this simple plaque.

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