A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

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

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

A WWI fighter plane and turn-of-the-century penny candy shop are among the unexpected features of this Financial District building.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

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

Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

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

The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

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