The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

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

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

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

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

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

This family-owned bakery is one of the last places in Brooklyn to sell the Nation of Islam–inspired bean pie.