This site commemorates the birthplace of the game of basketball, invented by James Naismith in the winter of 1891.

Home to the Titanic Historical Society's collection.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

A vibrant, 100-foot-tall mural dedicated to Evelyn Nesbit, the tragic icon of the Gilded Age.

If it hadn't been caught in time, a flaw in the design of this Manhattan skyscraper could have led to its collapse.

A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.

This monument to a veteran of the Mexican-American War is one of only two in Manhattan that serve as an actual mausoleum.

Nope, not Washington Irving's house.

New York City's first Modernist house.

Established in 1937, the oldest candy shop in New York City boasts a rainbow-colored inventory that would make Willy Wonka envious.

A replica of a 7th-century church hides in plain sight in the middle of the concrete jungle.

Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

The origins of midtown Manhattan's anachronistic wooden farmhouse remain a mystery.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

The one-time epicenter of American songwriting is now a little remembered Manhattan commercial block.

A plaque immortalizes the spot where the early American spy said his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

Join in a Seance at the Swedenborgian Church.

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

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.