This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

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

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

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

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

Hear the tales of New York's most notorious criminals.

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

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."