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

The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.

New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.

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

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

Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue was made on landfill then deliberately destroyed — apart from one small, obscure block.

Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.

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

This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

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

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

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

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

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

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

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

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.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

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