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

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

Manhattan's deadly West Side railroad, which killed hundreds of New Yorkers, is remembered by this simple plaque.

2,000 barrels of aging beer hidden in a warehouse at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.

Visit the site of a subway powered by nothing more than air--and lots of it.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

Pulled from the rubble of one of the worst modern tragedies, a steel crossbeam became a symbol of hope for New Yorkers.

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.

A hidden architectural treasure in New York's Brooklyn.

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

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

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

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

A massive forgotten storehouse from 1913 on the Brooklyn Waterfront has a spectacular view of Brooklyn.

This micro-industry of Latino cuisine along Red Hook's Ball Fields represents a victory in a food fight with the city.