Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

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

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

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

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.

A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.

One of the last full-orchestra recording studios in New York City and an acoustical marvel.

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

Hear the tales of New York's most notorious criminals.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

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

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

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

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

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

A historic 1890s architectural masterpiece with an iconic clock tower that, once open to the public, now faces an uncertain future.

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

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

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