A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

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

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

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

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

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

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

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

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

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

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

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

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

The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

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

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

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