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.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

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

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

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

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

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

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

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

A veritable variety of odds and ends.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

Nope, not Washington Irving's house.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

The most confusing clock in New York.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

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