Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

Down a stairway in the East Village, you could once read a plaque describing an alternate history of a fictional version of Manhattan.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

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

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

The impeccably spiced roast pork buns at this bakery are worth the wait.

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

Revolutionary War casualties fill the only 17th century structure remaining in Manhattan.

Established in 1937, the oldest candy shop in New York City boasts a rainbow-colored inventory that would make Willy Wonka envious.

Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

Slurp sesame noodles at the third-generation family-run establishment that invented them.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

Gang fights don't just happen on the streets, they happen under them too.

Set sail on a small scale.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.