This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York's only fraction of a street.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

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

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.