Even for Egyptian royalty, the afterlife was bring-your-own-beef.

Rat sculptures try to infiltrate the Graybar Building in an architectural tribute to New York City's nautical history.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

This monument to a veteran of the Mexican-American War is one of only two in Manhattan that serve as an actual mausoleum.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

A vibrant, 100-foot-tall mural dedicated to Evelyn Nesbit, the tragic icon of the Gilded Age.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

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

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

A quiet and contemplative oasis in the middle of New York's bustle and riot.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

Supremely flaky treats await at Amadou Ly’s boulangerie and patisserie.

The one-time office of the architectural firm that ushered in the Gilded Age is now a Club Monaco.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

The only remaining building in New York to see the inauguration of a president is being slowly overtaken by a grocery store.

Nope, not Washington Irving's house.

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

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

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.