Supremely flaky treats await at Amadou Ly’s boulangerie and patisserie.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue was made on landfill then deliberately destroyed — apart from one small, obscure block.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

One kilometer of thick brass rod laid out before your eyes.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A touching tribute to the "Queen of Soul."

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

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

A WWI fighter plane and turn-of-the-century penny candy shop are among the unexpected features of this Financial District building.

Home to a dizzying array of letterpress blocks with a rich history.

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

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

Possible relics of the ancient Roman city are hidden in this restaurant's façade.

Ever wanted the laymen's version of your credit card fine print?

Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.