Ornate "Renaissance Revival" style building.

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

Built as a home for the Union Porcelain magnate in 1867, now the Greenpoint Reformed Church and home to a ceramic mystery.

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

Manhattan and the Bronx have been playing tug-of-war over this former island neighborhood for more than a century.

Surrounded by low rise buildings and partially converted into an auto body shop, this marble archway is the only vestige of a forgotten Manhattan estate.

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

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

This giant boulder is sandwiched between apartment complexes in upper Manhattan.

Two large-scale sculptures of Adam and Eve greet visitors in the nude at the Time Warner Center in NYC.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

This monument to a veteran of the Mexican-American War is one of only two in Manhattan that serve as an actual mausoleum.

The most confusing clock in New York.

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

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

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

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

Currently housing a corporate bank branch this building at the southern tip of Manhattan was once the gateway to luxury vacationing.

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.