The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

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

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

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

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

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Hear the tales of New York's most notorious criminals.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

A cargo of beautiful music.

The Underground Railroad passed right through this historic Brooklyn Heights church.