Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

Currently housing a corporate bank branch this building at the southern tip of Manhattan was once the gateway to luxury vacationing.

A partially hidden wall graffitied by spectators of the 1976 Bicentennial, recently rediscovered.

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

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

Three-story slide through the New Museum.

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

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 whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.

Built as a gift to the hottest tastemaker of the time, these hidden quarters remain an Art Deco showpiece.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York's only fraction of a street.

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."

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

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

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

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 unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

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

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

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

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.