Exquisite examples prehistoric bas-relief carvings.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

Revolutionary War casualties fill the only 17th century structure remaining in Manhattan.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

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

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

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

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

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

An accidentally hidden library containing the ephemeral history of New York.

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

Four antique Baldwin trains are kept on display in the Mal Tiempo train depot.

Send a postcard while vacationing with Satan.

The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.

There is one corporation registered for every three square feet of space in this inconspicuous office building.