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

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

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

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

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

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.

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

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

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.