The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

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

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

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

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.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

This ruined fort hidden at the top of Central Park can't seem to keep from losing its historical plaques.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

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

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

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

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

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

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.