You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.

The legendary court where emerging basketball players gain their street cred.

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

A crumbling staircase in upper Manhattan is all that remains of one of the most important sites in sports history.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

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

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

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

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

The oldest private residence in New York City.

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

Nine nice parcels of land along a flight path offer a quiet respite... until a plane soars overhead.

A remnant from the golden age of aviation still in use today, Pan Am's Clipper service took off from this Art Deco gem.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

The graveyard holds the remains of Irish immigrants who arrived in Queens after fleeing the Great Famine.

A collaborative art project that transformed a neighborhood in NYC's Queens.

The best B-movies filmed on a shoestring budget were born here.

Snack on a partially gestated duck egg.

This statue honors a pillar of the early New Haven Black community.

A Yale University president wears full samurai garb in one of America’s oldest cemeteries.

It looks like a whale, it's part of Yale, and it's best-known by a nickname you can probably work out for yourself.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

Decades before the Salem Witch Trials, two Connecticut women were executed for alleged witchcraft.

The home of a famed utopian science fiction author has been preserved long after his predicted future in the year 2000.