During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

The most confusing clock in New York.

A veritable variety of odds and ends.

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world's largest chess board.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

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

A prohibition era watering hole for the police.

Test your business savvy and play the market for cocktails at this stock exchange-inspired watering hole.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

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

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

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

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

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

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

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.