This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

Revolutionary War casualties fill the only 17th century structure remaining in Manhattan.

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

There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

Gang fights don't just happen on the streets, they happen under them too.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

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

This impressive mansion in Vinegar Hill has some mysterious details in its architecture.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

In the middle of downtown Brooklyn lies a 165 year old secret hidden right below the surface (closed to the public indefinitely).

Set sail on a small scale.

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

As telephones become more essential and less stylish one historic Brooklyn building remembers the days when they were a grand celebration of communication.

A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.