A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

Monument to a forgotten NYC disaster that claimed the lives of 1,000.

Rat sculptures try to infiltrate the Graybar Building in an architectural tribute to New York City's nautical history.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.

A museum collection honoring the long history of the FDNY is held in a disused Manhattan fire house.

The last remnants of what was once one of the world's grandest hotels can now be found in a Manhattan subway station.

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

The highest point on the island known for buildings that touch the sky.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

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

Hiroshima survivor on Riverside Drive.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world's largest chess board.

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

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.