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.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

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

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

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

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

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

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

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

Become a prohibition rebel.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

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

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

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

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

The vaguely man-shaped root that ate the body of the founder of Rhode Island.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.