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.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

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

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

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

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York's only fraction of a street.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."