This slender three-story building has also had several famous residents.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

2,000 barrels of aging beer hidden in a warehouse at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

This vacant church in the Financial District was once the heart of New York's first Syrian immigrant community.

A Collegiate Gothic quadrangle that surrounds an 18th century secondary school whose financing came from the likes of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, among others.

This neo-Gothic former auto showroom is one of the few remaining reminders of Brooklyn's "Automobile Row."

Built just after the American Revolution, the oldest row house in New York City still stands in Chinatown.

A world of whimsy and wonder aboard a one of a kind historic landmark vessel.

A one-ton statue of Steve Rogers beautifies the entry to a Brooklyn Bed, Bath & Beyond.

Surrounded by low rise buildings and partially converted into an auto body shop, this marble archway is the only vestige of a forgotten Manhattan estate.

A working monastery hidden away in Brooklyn once abutted the location of a former inebriate's home.

This humble historic facade hides a history of boozing and the gentlemanly sport of rat-fighting.

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

Brooklyn vintners creating world-class wine in a city not known for its vineyards.

This Manhattan museum houses one of the largest collections of Spanish art and manuscripts outside of Spain.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

Oldest surviving example of a Dutch saltbox frame house in America.

This mysterious marker puzzles pedestrians and infuriates geographers.

Set sail on a small scale.

Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue was made on landfill then deliberately destroyed — apart from one small, obscure block.

The smallest island in Manhattan is a manmade landfill dominated by a Buddhist peace arch.

This Orthodox Church's exterior is rather unorthodox.

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

This study room in the New York Public Library saw the creation of one of contemporary America's greatest traitors.