This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

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

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

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

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

The one-time epicenter of American songwriting is now a little remembered Manhattan commercial block.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

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

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

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

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

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

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

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

This nostalgic blast from the grooming past is also a working barbershop.

The last living thing to come out of the rubble after 9/11 is now a symbol of hope and resilience.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

Some of the best Persian food in New York comes from the front window of an unassuming pizza shop.

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

Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.

A small piece of the composer's New York home lives on in the center of Czech culture in Manhattan.