The most confusing clock in New York.

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

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

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

Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

Visit the site of a subway powered by nothing more than air--and lots of it.

The most metal church of all time was built in record time because of an international, pious pissing contest.

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

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.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.

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

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

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

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

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

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