This nearly invisible wire transforms much of the city into one big, symbolic home on the holy day.

The famous facade of Grand Central Terminal hides a regulation tennis court, and it's not the first one.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

Spike Lee's provocative film is officially honored right where it was made, the first time a work of art was used as a secondary street name.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

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

The most confusing clock in New York.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

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

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

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

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

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

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