New York, New York
The Double Check Businessman
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.
1925
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
New York, New York
Trinity Place Bank Vault Bar
This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.
New York, New York
5 Beekman Street
This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.
New York, New York
Matryoshka at Wall Street Bath & Spa 88
This Russian bar-restaurant lies within a three-story underground bathhouse.
New York, New York
The Marine Grill Murals of the Hotel McAlpin
The last remnants of what was once one of the world's grandest hotels can now be found in a Manhattan subway station.
New York, New York
The John Street Methodist Church
The oldest Methodist church in the United States has been spreading the good news for over two centuries.
New York, New York
New York Federal Gold Vault
More gold than anywhere else, ever.
New York, New York
Brooklyn Bridge Fallout Shelter
There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.
New York, New York
Titanic Memorial
Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.
New York, New York
Rudolph de Harak Digital Clock
The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.
New York, New York
The Press Room
Home to a dizzying array of letterpress blocks with a rich history.
New York, New York
Charlotte Temple’s Grave
A Manhattan tombstone honors a popular 19th-century heroine, now long forgotten.
New York, New York
Trinity Churchyard
This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.
New York, New York
St. George's Syrian Catholic Church
This vacant church in the Financial District was once the heart of New York's first Syrian immigrant community.
New York, New York
Wall Street Palisade
Wooden pavers represent a 17th-century barrier that gave Wall Street its name.
New York, New York
Fearless Girl Statue
Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.
New York, New York
Wall Street Bombing Scars
Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.
Boston, Massachusetts
Museum of American Finance
Ever wanted the laymen's version of your credit card fine print?
New York, New York
Wavertree
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.
New York, New York
Model Ship Collection at the South Street Seaport Museum
Set sail on a small scale.
New York, New York
Site of New York Slave Market
Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.
New York, New York
Delmonico's Pompeii Columns
Possible relics of the ancient Roman city are hidden in this restaurant's façade.
Madison, Wisconsin
The Nick Weerts Memorial Phone Booth
Pick up the receiver of this ordinary-looking phone booth and more than ten hours of voices, music, laughter and memories from the past come unexpectedly back through the line.
Paris, France
Montmartre Funicular
The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.
