This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

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

The site of a fallen tree that protected Americans from British forces during the American Revolution.

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

The inventor of the Coney Island hot dog rests in a grand mausoleum in Brooklyn.

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

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

Behind a grungy bodega facade, a Poblano family serves rich, home-cooked meals.

Possible relics of the ancient Roman city are hidden in this restaurant's façade.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

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

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

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.

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

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

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

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