A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

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.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

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

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

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.

Currently housing a corporate bank branch this building at the southern tip of Manhattan was once the gateway to luxury vacationing.

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

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

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

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

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

Revolutionary War casualties fill the only 17th century structure remaining in Manhattan.

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

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.