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

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

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

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

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

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

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

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

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

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

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

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

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

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

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

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

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

Site of the 1879 Cheyenne Outbreak and the site where famed Sioux chief Crazy Horse met his fate.

What do a giraffe, an elephant, and reasonably priced steaks have in common? This roadside restaurant filled with exotic taxidermy.