Currently housing a corporate bank branch this building at the southern tip of Manhattan was once the gateway to luxury vacationing.

Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

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

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

Walking around West Harlem reveals a scavenger hunt of beautiful bird murals.

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.

Pulled from the rubble of one of the worst modern tragedies, a steel crossbeam became a symbol of hope for New Yorkers.

Hiroshima survivor on Riverside Drive.

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

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

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

The most confusing clock in New York.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

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

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

Hear the tales of New York's most notorious criminals.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.