A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.

More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.

A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.

The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

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

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.

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.

The front yard of an Upper East Side town house hides the last fragment of one of New York's most famous theatres.

A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.

A well-worn marker in a forgotten alleyway is all that remains of what had been one of Manhattan's most beautiful buildings.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.

Rat sculptures try to infiltrate the Graybar Building in an architectural tribute to New York City's nautical history.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

This Upper East Side apartment co-op was designed as a tuberculosis sanitarium.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.

These ornate manhole covers were used for a now-forgotten purpose.