Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

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

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

The highest point on the island known for buildings that touch the sky.

Those belting out show tunes might not realize this piano bar marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

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

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

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

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

The most confusing clock in New York.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

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 historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.