An activist who committed her life to peace and women's suffrage.

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.

Small monoliths of several varieties of stone sit alongside a wooded path in the Bronx.

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

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

A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

One kilometer of thick brass rod laid out before your eyes.

A prohibition era watering hole for the police.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

These historic buildings once housed the headquarters of one of the most infamous gangs of New York.

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

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.

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

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

This 220-year-old house is a reminder of New York City's Dutch past.

A Yiddish theater turned movie house turned rock and roll landmark turned gay disco turned bank.

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

Monument to a forgotten NYC disaster that claimed the lives of 1,000.

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

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

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