The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

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

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

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

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

New York's oldest and possibly grandest keeper of books.

The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.

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

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

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

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

The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.