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

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

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

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

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

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

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

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

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

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

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

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones' Locker.

Historic home of America's sweetheart sharpshooter, Annie Oakley.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.