A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

The most confusing clock in New York.

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

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

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

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

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

Hear the tales of New York's most notorious criminals.

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

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

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

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