This vacant church in the Financial District was once the heart of New York's first Syrian immigrant community.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.

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

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

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

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

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

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

Possible relics of the ancient Roman city are hidden in this restaurant's façade.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

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

A well-worn marker in a forgotten alleyway is all that remains of what had been one of Manhattan's most beautiful buildings.

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

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

Currently housing a corporate bank branch this building at the southern tip of Manhattan was once the gateway to luxury vacationing.

Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.

This giant boulder is sandwiched between apartment complexes in upper Manhattan.

The "Seinfeld" diner.