The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

Built as a gift to the hottest tastemaker of the time, these hidden quarters remain an Art Deco showpiece.

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

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

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

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

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

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

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

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

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

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

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

Marvel at this turn-of-the-century masterpiece that has been turned into a rather stately supermarket.

Once the largest unsupported dome in the world, beating out the Pantheon and St Peters in Rome.