This defunct Champlain Oil service station harkens back to the early days of automobiles.

The Victorian-era greenhouse is stuffed with tropical plants, and open 365 days a year.

Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

The origins of midtown Manhattan's anachronistic wooden farmhouse remain a mystery.

Long-forgotten artifacts give incredible insight into New York's most glamorous hotel.

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

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

What happens here stays here – unless it affects the whole world.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

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

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

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

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

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

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

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

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