The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

A grand New York post office that is home to mailman Santas, scraps of postal history, and a pneumatic mail system.

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

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.

A Ukrainian church canteen doles out hearty fare in an East Village basement.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

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

A Yiddish theater turned movie house turned rock and roll landmark turned gay disco turned bank.

Visit the site of a subway powered by nothing more than air--and lots of it.

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.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

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

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

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

Ever wanted the laymen's version of your credit card fine print?

Possible relics of the ancient Roman city are hidden in this restaurant's façade.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

A WWI fighter plane and turn-of-the-century penny candy shop are among the unexpected features of this Financial District building.

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

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

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