One of the largest sculpture collections in the U.K. features history's greats, from Bob Dylan to Galileo, in bronze.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

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."

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

Become a prohibition rebel.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

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

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.