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

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

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

A crumbling staircase in upper Manhattan is all that remains of one of the most important sites in sports history.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

This slender three-story building has also had several famous residents.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

An aptly-named street near the birthplace of the modern LGBT rights movement.

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

Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.

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

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

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

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

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

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

This factory made "health corsets" that were a step towards liberating women's bodies.

This monument commemorates an aeronaut who allegedly flew a plane before the Wright brothers.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.