A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

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

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

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

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

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

This simple Manhattan salt house is artfully shaped... well, like a giant granule of salt.

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

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

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

A remnant of the original World Trade Center complex continues to serve as a commuter gateway.

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.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

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.

Possible relics of the ancient Roman city are hidden in this restaurant's façade.

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

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

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.