Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.

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.

Haven for steampunks.

What happens here stays here – unless it affects the whole world.

This lavish room at NYC's French Embassy is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

This was one of the first (and last) university-built and operated nuclear reactors.

The first "Hall of Fame" in America was designed by legendary Gilded Age architect Stanford White for what was then the NYU uptown campus.

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

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

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

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

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

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.