The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

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

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

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.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

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

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

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

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.

A museum devoted to bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories through exhibitions, education and public programming.

The oldest Dutch colonial stone house in New York City is a hidden gem on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.

Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.