Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

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

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

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

The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

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

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

Walk over a 150 year old manhole.

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

The "Seinfeld" diner.

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

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

A historic 1890s architectural masterpiece with an iconic clock tower that, once open to the public, now faces an uncertain future.

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.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York's only fraction of a street.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.