The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

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

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

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.

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

One kilometer of thick brass rod laid out before your eyes.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

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.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

Wooden pavers represent a 17th-century barrier that gave Wall Street its name.

A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.

The oldest Methodist church in the United States has been spreading the good news for over two centuries.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

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

After traveling the world, one of the last remaining fully-rigged three masted iron-hulled cargo ship in the world found its home in New York.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Slurp sesame noodles at the third-generation family-run establishment that invented them.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

Built just after the American Revolution, the oldest row house in New York City still stands in Chinatown.

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.