Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

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

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

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.

The former sign of this immortal music venue is just that--undying.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

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.