A prohibition era watering hole for the police.

The last remnants of what was once one of the world's grandest hotels can now be found in a Manhattan subway station.

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

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

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

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

Hiroshima survivor on Riverside Drive.

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

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

Captain America, Sub-Mariner, and the Human Torch were all born in this art deco Manhattan masterpiece.

Down a stairway in the East Village, you could once read a plaque describing an alternate history of a fictional version of Manhattan.

This lavish room at NYC's French Embassy is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

What happens here stays here – unless it affects the whole world.

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

The highest point on the island known for buildings that touch the sky.

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

This was one of the first (and last) university-built and operated nuclear reactors.

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

Hundreds of antique bank vault locks on display in New York City.

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

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

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