A Yiddish theater turned movie house turned rock and roll landmark turned gay disco turned bank.

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

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

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

The most confusing clock in New York.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

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

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

This monument to a veteran of the Mexican-American War is one of only two in Manhattan that serve as an actual mausoleum.

A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.

The mortal remains of a Russian prince, priest and paranormal investigator who came to America in 1792.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

The early data processor factory founded in Washington for the 1890 U.S. Census went on to become IBM.

The institution is sitting on a goldmine of 21,000 paints, varnishes, pigments, and primers preserved for posterity.

While most wind tunnels test scale models, the "Cave of Winds" was large enough for actual airplanes.

On the Fourth of July this area will transform into a Pompeii-like storm of falling embers and ash.