This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

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

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

The one-time epicenter of American songwriting is now a little remembered Manhattan commercial block.

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

A garment factory hides a small Dominican eatery in the hallway to its freight elevator.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

New York's oldest magic store.

This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.

On the Hudson resides one of the largest clocks in the world.

Church in Manhattan holds the bloody sock of Padre Pio, among with many other unusual relics.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

Now the site of a high school, this was almost the location of the largest cathedral in the US.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

One of the few Glatt kosher delis in the United States is a cornerstone of its Hasidic neighborhood.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

Enormous one time fiber mill now houses local artists and small businesses.

The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

A 120-year oil leak slowly unleashes more gallons of oil than the Exxon/Mobil disaster.