A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

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

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

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

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

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

This royal shrine and cemetery is hidden amidst modern public housing.

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

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

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

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

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

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

England's oldest surviving hedge maze has been confusing visitors for over 300 years.

Ancient rock-hewn town that witnessed key events of Georgian history.

This architecturally eclectic fortress witnessed centuries of bloody turmoil, including the massacre of its ruling clan.

Take respite inside this jaw-dropping church while climbing the volcano where Georgia's Prometheus was once chained.

A cylinder monument with a spectacular vista commemorates a friendship that some say never existed.

Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.

Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.