The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

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

New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.

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

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue was made on landfill then deliberately destroyed — apart from one small, obscure block.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

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

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.

A quiet and contemplative oasis in the middle of New York's bustle and riot.

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

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

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The former sign of this immortal music venue is just that--undying.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

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

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.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

The oldest Methodist church in the United States has been spreading the good news for over two centuries.

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