A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

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

The most confusing clock in New York.

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

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

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

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

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

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

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

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

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

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

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

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

The "Seinfeld" diner.

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

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.