This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

An experimental, community court opened in 2000 takes a new approach to youth offenders in south Brooklyn.

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

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

A collaborative art project that transformed a neighborhood in NYC's Queens.

A six-story treehouse offers spectacular views of New York's Finger Lakes region.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

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

This New York holdover was built to provide housing for shopgirls and still does not allow men above the lobby.

Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

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

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

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

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

A near tragic event on this bridge helped inspire the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life."

What remains of the simple red brick chapel where the women's rights movement began.

This statue commemorates the meeting of the most influential minds of the women’s rights movement.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.