A WWI fighter plane and turn-of-the-century penny candy shop are among the unexpected features of this Financial District building.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

Set sail on a small scale.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

The artist and New York City icon lived, worked and died in this converted carriage house owned by another iconic artist, Andy Warhol.

These historic buildings once housed the headquarters of one of the most infamous gangs of New York.

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

The tiniest little stage in New York.

A prohibition era watering hole for the police.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

A replica of a 7th-century church hides in plain sight in the middle of the concrete jungle.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.

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

Underneath the bustling city streets, a hydroponic farm grows unique herbs in an urban oasis.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A historic 1890s architectural masterpiece with an iconic clock tower that, once open to the public, now faces an uncertain future.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.