One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

Take in a rare, face-to-face glimpse of Lady Liberty at this tucked away Red Hook park.

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

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

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

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

This lavish room at NYC's French Embassy is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

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

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

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.

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