Hiroshima survivor on Riverside Drive.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

One Brooklyn man's collection of life-size fiberglass statues has taken over his entire yard.

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

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

This lavish room at NYC's French Embassy is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

This was one of the first (and last) university-built and operated nuclear reactors.

Hundreds of antique bank vault locks on display in New York City.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

The first "Hall of Fame" in America was designed by legendary Gilded Age architect Stanford White for what was then the NYU uptown campus.

Discover the taste of mold.

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.

Come for the sustainable organic chocolate, stay for the sustainable organic booze.

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

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.