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

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

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

A small piece of the composer's New York home lives on in the center of Czech culture in Manhattan.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.

A staggering collection of photographs depicting medical, social, and historical change.

The only remaining building in New York to see the inauguration of a president is being slowly overtaken by a grocery store.

The place where Dvořák composed some of his most famous works.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

Those belting out show tunes might not realize this piano bar marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

An institution dedicated to the towering buildings that make up skylines in New York City and around the world.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

Set sail on a small scale.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

The final resting place of Harriet Tubman and other famous historical figures.

This humble resting place belongs to one of history's most celebrated restaurateurs.

Maybe the only missile installed in a public park, this Cold War leftover was one of the first to carry a nuclear warhead.

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.

Once the future of underwater combat, this old sub is now open for visitors to muck around in.