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

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York's only fraction of a street.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

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

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.

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

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

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

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.