New York City's smallest piece of private property.

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

Check out the underground party scene at the "Burning Man of Brooklyn."

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

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

Abandoned 19th century homes once occupied by naval officers, soon to be demolished.

This impressive mansion in Vinegar Hill has some mysterious details in its architecture.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

Three-story slide through the New Museum.

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

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

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

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

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

A historic 1890s architectural masterpiece with an iconic clock tower that, once open to the public, now faces an uncertain future.

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 golden Buddha statue at the Wat Muang Monastery is the tallest in Thailand, and the ninth-tallest in the world.

Home of the unusual art of water puppetry, one of Vietnam's oldest curiosities.

Monument to a brutal, ineffectual US bombing campaign and a sobering reminder of the human cost of the Vietnam War.