The oldest of only three existing statues of the great novelist stands in a city he did not care for.

Where America's first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

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

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

Staten Island's original central park is the former home of the city water supply as well as thousands of immigrant graves.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

This smiling statue memorializes local cartoonist Bob Montana and his legendary creation.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

This small museum dedicated to the painful memory of segregation is essentially a time capsule.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

A museum dedicated to "science, history and the arts" little changed since 1915.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.