The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

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

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

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

Volunteer-run library dedicated to exploring five decades of activism history.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.