A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

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

This Upper East Side apartment co-op was designed as a tuberculosis sanitarium.

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

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

New York City's first Modernist house.

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

A Gothic-style abode built to accommodate the church's three resident peacocks.

A museum marks and documents the site of the Titanic's launch.

The ship built to ferry passengers and goods to the doomed Titanic is now the last remaining White Star Line vessel.

This Victorian-era public house has set the standard for pub-style elegance for over a hundred years.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.