This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

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.

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

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

All of the Malaysian sweets at this shop are made daily with a whole lot of love.

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.

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

A prohibition era watering hole for the police.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

On this island, you suck away your garbage via an elaborate pneumatic tube system.

Site of the first pathological and bacteriological research facility in the United States.

Some of New York's best tacos can be found in the back of an unassuming bodega in Queens.

Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

These small stands sell Malian snacks to worshippers and passersby after Friday prayers in Harlem.

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

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

Walking around West Harlem reveals a scavenger hunt of beautiful bird murals.