In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

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

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.