Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

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.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

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

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

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

New York's oldest and possibly grandest keeper of books.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

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

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.