This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

This slender three-story building has also had several famous residents.

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

Love is in the air along the small street in Brooklyn.

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

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

The writing studio of an American adventure author, built in the style of a medieval castle.

At Fountain and Division, in the shadow of Kendall College of Art and Design, lays the story of a fictional culture whose political system was used under license and who finally rebelled.

A restored 114-year-old railroad station heralded as the most photographed depot in the United States.

Hundreds of enormous icebergs drift through this waterway every year.

A lone lighthouse on the wind-swept shores of the cape.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

This rocky spread has been squeezed up directly from the bowels of the earth.

A statue of the early navigator stands overlooking the land he first surveyed.

These colorful French islands spent a stint bootlegging booze during American Prohibition.

A World War II gun battery sits at the easternmost point of North America.

The first transatlantic wireless signal was received at this 17th-century fort.