The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

A graffiti Mecca welcoming artists from around the world.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

The oldest Dutch colonial stone house in New York City is a hidden gem on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.

Some of the best Persian food in New York comes from the front window of an unassuming pizza shop.

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

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

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

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.