This chic avenue cuts the block between Fifth and Park (Fourth) avenues in half, and is lined with elite boutiques and world-famous designer stores, as well as a number of upscale galleries. It's considered the stratosphere of New York fashion.

Utilitarian, symbolic, functional and beautiful, American folk art in this museum's wide-ranging collection runs the gamut from ship figureheads to storybooks, quilts to artisan signs. The bilevel permanent exhibit, "Folk Art Revealed," dis..

Construction on Saint Patrick's began in 1859 and was supposed to take eight years. Instead, thanks to the intrusion of the Civil War, it took 20. The church was dedicated in 1879 but was still not complete. The 330ft spires were added in 1888. St. P..

Packed cheek by jowl on this bright, frenetic thoroughfare are some of the most touristic and historic attractions in Times Square. Famed theaters include the New Victory Theatre and the New Amsterdam Theater.

This striking pile of bronze glass and steel (1958) by Mies van der Rohe is widely regarded as one of the finest International-style skyscrapers ever constructed. Less than half of its "zoning envelope" was used; Mies opted instead to set t..

When it opened in 1952, the 21-story green-glass Lever House, designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, was considered avant-garde, contrasting as it did with the stone and brick apartment buildings of Park Avenue. But the structure inspired many imi..

A 16-acre complex comprising five major theater and concert buildings, a library, a band shell and two outdoor plazas. Visually, the space is stunning, with sleek rectangular buildings of glass and Italian travertine marble arranged around a central ..

This stunning museum is the first Western institution dedicated solely to presenting and interpreting the little-known art of Bhutan, Tibet, Nepal and other parts of the Himalayas. Some 900 paintings, sculptures, textiles and ritual objects spanning ..

The Whitney, which grew from the collections of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in the early 1930s, is dedicated to the advancement of contemporary artists and is known for its provocative exhibits as well as its invitation biennials, held since 1932, wh..

Housed in an imposing Neoclassical building fronting Central Park, the New-York Historical society houses antique treasures, Hudson River School paintings, watercolors by John James Audubon, and various objects of Americana. It also has amassed a com..

Known primarily as an enclave for New York City's "old money," the Upper East Side developed in the late 19C, as rich industrialists including Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick began building mansions on the large lots along Fifth Avenue..

Historically the seat of the city's intelligentsia, the Upper West Side remains an enclave of performing artists and literate liberals drawn to the area's world-famous cultural venues, including Lincoln Center and Columbia University. Lately the area..

In 1943 art patrons Solomon R. Guggenheim and his wife, Irene Rothschild, commissioned architect Frank Lloyd Wright to design a permanent home for their collection of modern art, which today numbers more than 6,000 works. Wright considered the buildi..

Founded in 1897, this eclectic museum occupying an opulent, 64-room mansion on the Upper East Side explores design across continents and cultures. The collection of more than 250,000 objects related to the art, craft and commerce of design covers som..

Established by renowned Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi, this recently renovated museum complex consists of an outdoor sculpture garden and 10 indoor galleries, an education center, café and museum shop. The ground floor displays a permanent..

In the narrow streets of New York's Chinatown, densely packed markets stock everything from lychee to lipstick, while storefront restaurants serve up all manner of Asian cuisine. Today the majority of Manhattan's Asians and Asian-Americans live in th..

Founded in 1923 as America's first institution dedicated to the history of a city, this museum chronicles the changing face of New York through its rich collections of decorative arts, furnishings, silver, prints and paintings. Worth noting is the fa..

Distinguished by a well-proportioned Neoclassical facade and a superb Georgian interior, the building you see here was constructed between 1802 and 1811 at a cost of about $500,000, by architects Joseph F. Mangin and John McComb Jr. The tour takes in..

This massive stone edifice, the seat of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, is reputedly the largest Gothic cathedral in the world. Strangely, though, it's only two-thirds complete, and there are currently no plans to finish it. The design incorporate..

The world's largest commercial complex stood here from 1970 until the morning of September 11, 2001, when two hijacked commercial airliners were flown into the twin towers, causing their collapse and effectively destroying the entire complex. More th..