The former home of the reclusive "Weird Wendels" who dominated New York real estate a century before Donald Trump.

Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue was made on landfill then deliberately destroyed — apart from one small, obscure block.

Red frames showcase remnants of one of New York's original subway stations.

These historic buildings once housed the headquarters of one of the most infamous gangs of New York.

The smallest island in Manhattan is a manmade landfill dominated by a Buddhist peace arch.

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

This study room in the New York Public Library saw the creation of one of contemporary America's greatest traitors.

Set sail on a small scale.

This humble historic facade hides a history of boozing and the gentlemanly sport of rat-fighting.

Cheap pizza and all of your naughty bedroom needs housed in a stunning example of Art Nouveau architecture.

The famous facade of Grand Central Terminal hides a regulation tennis court, and it's not the first one.

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

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

Need to book a room at the Hotel Pennsylvania? Just dial up 6-5000.

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

The artist and New York City icon lived, worked and died in this converted carriage house owned by another iconic artist, Andy Warhol.

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

Recovered suit of a cannibalistic West African gang.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

A museum collection honoring the long history of the FDNY is held in a disused Manhattan fire house.

What happens here stays here – unless it affects the whole world.

More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.

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

The iconic Manhattan corner that was once the site of the Beastie Boys' fake clothing store.