Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

The origins of midtown Manhattan's anachronistic wooden farmhouse remain a mystery.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

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

A plaque immortalizes the spot where the early American spy said his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

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

Join in a Seance at the Swedenborgian Church.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

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

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world’s largest chess board.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

The iconic Manhattan corner that was once the site of the Beastie Boys' fake clothing store.

A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

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

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

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

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.