The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

Once a flowing stream and where the USS Monitor, the world's first ironclad, was built and launched.

Now the site of a high school, this was almost the location of the largest cathedral in the US.

This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.

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

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.

A contemporary art installation housed within a Gothic cathedral.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

A quiet and contemplative oasis in the middle of New York's bustle and riot.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

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

In the middle of downtown Brooklyn lies a 165 year old secret hidden right below the surface (closed to the public indefinitely).

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Become a prohibition rebel.