Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

A hidden architectural treasure in New York's Brooklyn.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

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

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

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

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

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

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

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

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