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

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

Recovered suit of a cannibalistic West African gang.

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

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

The most confusing clock in New York.

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

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

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

The former sign of this immortal music venue is just that--undying.

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

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

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.

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

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

The oldest Methodist church in the United States has been spreading the good news for over two centuries.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

Ever wanted the laymen's version of your credit card fine print?

A cargo of beautiful music.

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.

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

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.