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

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

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

This elaborate tunnel is the first structure composed of cast concrete in the United States.

This outdoor gallery of sculptures along the East River was once a landfill.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

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

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

Peek through the gates at this oasis from the city, full of Old English charm.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York's only fraction of a street.

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.

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

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

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

This ruined fort hidden at the top of Central Park can't seem to keep from losing its historical plaques.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.