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

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

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

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

This monument to a veteran of the Mexican-American War is one of only two in Manhattan that serve as an actual mausoleum.

This castle-like building in Manhattan helped destigmatize cancer in the 19th century.

One kilometer of thick brass rod laid out before your eyes.

The highest point on the island known for buildings that touch the sky.

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

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

There's a piece of New York City transportation history hidden in plain sight at a Manhattan subway stop.

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

Once a dumping spot, now a park with a kayak launch.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

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

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

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

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

The smallest island in Manhattan is a manmade landfill dominated by a Buddhist peace arch.

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

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.