This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

Those belting out show tunes might not realize this piano bar marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

Church in Manhattan holds the bloody sock of Padre Pio, among with many other unusual relics.

What happens here stays here – unless it affects the whole world.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

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

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

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

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.