Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.

The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.

Monument to a forgotten NYC disaster that claimed the lives of 1,000.

This vacant church in the Financial District was once the heart of New York's first Syrian immigrant community.

A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.

A small part of lower Manhattan is actually made from a bit of England.

One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.

Built just after the American Revolution, the oldest row house in New York City still stands in Chinatown.

A memorial to the first person killed by a motor vehicle in the Western Hemisphere.

Hidden behind a gate in Greenwich Village is a little farmhouse that once served as the writing studio of a bestselling author.

The former home of the reclusive "Weird Wendels" who dominated New York real estate a century before Donald Trump.

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

Walking around West Harlem reveals a scavenger hunt of beautiful bird murals.

A forgotten relic from New York's bygone trolley system hides in plain sight under a bridge.

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.

Spike Lee's provocative film is officially honored right where it was made, the first time a work of art was used as a secondary street name.

This slender three-story building has also had several famous residents.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

A remnant from the golden age of aviation still in use today, Pan Am's Clipper service took off from this Art Deco gem.

The one-time epicenter of American songwriting is now a little remembered Manhattan commercial block.

You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.

Hidden inside one of the world's most well-visited zoos is a secret plaque promising eternal life.