Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

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

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

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

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

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

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

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York's only fraction of a street.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

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

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

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

Abandoned 19th century homes once occupied by naval officers, soon to be demolished.

A cargo of beautiful music.

The unassuming structure was part of a Major League Baseball stadium.

New York's oldest concrete structure is being preserved thanks to the gentrification of Whole Foods.

Where there’s manufacturing, there’s fire!