A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

The origins of midtown Manhattan's anachronistic wooden farmhouse remain a mystery.

A plaque immortalizes the spot where the early American spy said his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

The artist and New York City icon lived, worked and died in this converted carriage house owned by another iconic artist, Andy Warhol.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

Cheap pizza and all of your naughty bedroom needs housed in a stunning example of Art Nouveau architecture.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

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

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

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world's largest chess board.

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

The most confusing clock in New York.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

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.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

A massive forgotten storehouse from 1913 on the Brooklyn Waterfront has a spectacular view of Brooklyn.