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

The only remaining building in New York to see the inauguration of a president is being slowly overtaken by a grocery store.

The origins of midtown Manhattan's anachronistic wooden farmhouse remain a mystery.

A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.

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

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world's largest chess board.

New York City's first Modernist house.

Rat sculptures try to infiltrate the Graybar Building in an architectural tribute to New York City's nautical history.

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

This humble historic facade hides a history of boozing and the gentlemanly sport of rat-fighting.

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

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

Built just after the American Revolution, the oldest row house in New York City still stands in Chinatown.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

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

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

After surviving abandonment, this powerful Latin American mural is alive again.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

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

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.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The one-time office of the architectural firm that ushered in the Gilded Age is now a Club Monaco.