A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

The highest point on the island known for buildings that touch the sky.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

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

Down a stairway in the East Village, you could once read a plaque describing an alternate history of a fictional version of Manhattan.

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

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

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

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

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

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

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

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

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

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

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