After surviving abandonment, this powerful Latin American mural is alive again.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

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

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

Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

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

New York's oldest magic store.

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

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

The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.

A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

Need to book a room at the Hotel Pennsylvania? Just dial up 6-5000.

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

Nope, not Washington Irving's house.

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

Cheap pizza and all of your naughty bedroom needs housed in a stunning example of Art Nouveau architecture.

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

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

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

This 220-year-old house is a reminder of New York City's Dutch past.