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

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

Set sail on a small scale.

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

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

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

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.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.