An homage to Jackie Gleason's bus-driving character from 'The Honeymooners.'

A touching tribute to the "Queen of Soul."

This simple Manhattan salt house is artfully shaped... well, like a giant granule of salt.

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

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

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.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

The most confusing clock in New York.

The only subway station in the city that still makes use of gap fillers.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

Revolutionary War casualties fill the only 17th century structure remaining in Manhattan.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.