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

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

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

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

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

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

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

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

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

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

A quiet and contemplative oasis in the middle of New York's bustle and riot.

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

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

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

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

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

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

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

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

The loneliest island in New York.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.