A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

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

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

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

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

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 Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

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

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

The collection of intricate sculptures includes one carved from a mammoth's tusk

This colossal ancient sculpture of the monstrous Aztec rain god has a literally stormy history.

In Coyoacán, a pair of coyotes crown a public fountain in reference to the ancient Aztec name of the borough.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.