This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans' graves.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

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

The lesser-known Alice sculpture of Central Park dedicated to the “godmother of American children.”

Slurp sesame noodles at the third-generation family-run establishment that invented them.

Once thought to be the fabled Holy Grail, it is now known to be an oil lamp.

This hidden oasis features a stunning view of the Hudson River and the Palisades from a castle-like museum.

You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

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

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

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

Become a prohibition rebel.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.