Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

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

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

A band of aerialists and circus performers putting on incredible shows in East Williamsburg.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

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.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York’s only fraction of a street.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

Where layer cakes tower above one’s head and there is never a shortage of icing.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

Pilgrims each carried a brick to the top of Mount Monserrate to help build this historic sanctuary in Colombia.

This Bogotá museum houses the world's largest collection of pre-Columbian gold relics.

Two identical statues by Fernando Botero, one blown to pieces in a terrorist bombing, the other donated as a gift for peace.

This colonial town in Colombia sits around the largest stone paved square in South America.

An unusual and beautiful form of mass transit serves the city's steepest neighborhoods.

Colorful lights and mirror-like brine pools create trippy illusions within the historic mine.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

The colonial city's social history is reflected in its fanciful door knockers.