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

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

The oldest continuously operating farm in New York State.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

A graffiti Mecca welcoming artists from around the world.

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.

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

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.

A grand New York post office that is home to mailman Santas, scraps of postal history, and a pneumatic mail system.

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

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

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

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

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

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

Built as a gift to the hottest tastemaker of the time, these hidden quarters remain an Art Deco showpiece.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.