This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

The former estate of the Guggenheims, part of the opulent Gold Coast that inspired the Great Gatsby.

Con Edison’s exotic and heat-loving pests.

The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.

Historic Greenpoint theater, turned roller disco, now housing a chain pharmacy store.

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

Revolutionary War casualties fill the only 17th century structure remaining in Manhattan.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

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

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

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

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

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.

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

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

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 Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

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

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

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.