Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

The most confusing clock in New York.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world's largest chess board.

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

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

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

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

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

An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

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

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.

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

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

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.