A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

A museum devoted to bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories through exhibitions, education and public programming.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

A young woman's senseless murder led to the controversial psychological theory of the "bystander effect."

Where the Monitor was launched and ushered in the age of the "ironclads."

The graveyard holds the remains of Irish immigrants who arrived in Queens after fleeing the Great Famine.

A masked wrestling legend has opened the first U.S. course devoted to a meditative Japanese golf variant.

Where there’s manufacturing, there’s fire!

Neoclassical bank designed by NY architects Helmle & Huberty.

Dozens of houses in the Adirondack Mountains are reminders of a literal "cottage industry" to cure people of a deadly disease.

This landmark building is now a vibrant performing arts space with musical acts from around the world.

The only remaining Jewish congregation in Greenpoint.

The shared home of a utopian commune that practiced "free love" a century before the hippies.

This giant boulder is sandwiched between apartment complexes in upper Manhattan.

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.

Antique skeletons and taxidermy creatures were found crammed in a university closet.

This backwater graveyard in the Hamptons became a trendy burial spot and posthumous status symbol for famous artists.

Etchings in a pile of boulders on the Long Island Sound are a monument to vanquished native peoples.

The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.

A near tragic event on this bridge helped inspire the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life."

This sprawling woodland estate was the brainchild of iconic American industrial designer Russel Wright.

The private island of Yale's elite Skull & Bones society is kind of a dump.

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

Pulled from the rubble of one of the worst modern tragedies, a steel crossbeam became a symbol of hope for New Yorkers.