This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

This nearly invisible wire transforms much of the city into one big, symbolic home on the holy day.

The smallest island in Manhattan is a manmade landfill dominated by a Buddhist peace arch.

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

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

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

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

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.

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

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

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

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

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.