The phone booths of New York City have all but disappeared, but their remains were once found in this "graveyard," sadly now removed as well.

Where the legendary Orson Welles got his theatrical start before "Citizen Kane."

New York City's first Modernist house.

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

Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.

Site of the first pathological and bacteriological research facility in the United States.

A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.

This translucent sculpture represents a quintessential component of New York City's skyline.

Revolutionary War casualties fill the only 17th century structure remaining in Manhattan.

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

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

The last remnants of what was once one of the world's grandest hotels can now be found in a Manhattan subway station.

Behind a grungy bodega facade, a Poblano family serves rich, home-cooked meals.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

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

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A small piece of the composer's New York home lives on in the center of Czech culture in Manhattan.