This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

The legendary court where emerging basketball players gain their street cred.

The former home of the reclusive "Weird Wendels" who dominated New York real estate a century before Donald Trump.

This castle-like building in Manhattan helped destigmatize cancer in the 19th century.

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

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

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

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

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

Visit the site of a subway powered by nothing more than air--and lots of it.

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

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

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

Unlock the secrets of the conjuring arts.

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

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

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