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.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

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

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

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

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

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

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

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

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

Volunteer-run library dedicated to exploring five decades of activism history.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

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

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.