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

The first "Hall of Fame" in America was designed by legendary Gilded Age architect Stanford White for what was then the NYU uptown campus.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

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

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.

This ruined fort hidden at the top of Central Park can't seem to keep from losing its historical plaques.

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

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

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

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

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

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

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

The most confusing clock in New York.