An aptly-named street near the birthplace of the modern LGBT rights movement.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

This slender three-story building has also had several famous residents.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

This simple Manhattan salt house is artfully shaped... well, like a giant granule of salt.

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

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

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.

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

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

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

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

A riverfront park that both remediated and preserved its industrial past.

The mosaic Star of David at the front of this store hints that it's no ordinary Italian grocer.

Sip a cappuccino in the historic cafe that introduced them to the United States.

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

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Hidden behind a gate in Greenwich Village is a little farmhouse that once served as the writing studio of a bestselling author.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

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