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.

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

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

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

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

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.

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

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.

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

Set sail on a small scale.

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

The oldest Methodist church in the United States has been spreading the good news for over two centuries.

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.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

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

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.