This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

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

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

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

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

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.

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

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 fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

The origin of these small islands' sweet names is a local mystery.

A work of art that pays homage to a Victorian timepiece in Providence.

A gothic-styled structure that has been the location for several movies.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.