Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Where there’s manufacturing, there’s fire!

A Yiddish theater turned movie house turned rock and roll landmark turned gay disco turned bank.

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

Nope, not Washington Irving's house.

Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

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

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

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

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

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

Hiroshima survivor on Riverside Drive.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

The saddest little diner in New York.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.