This old-fashioned candy shop, ice cream parlor, and diner served as the setting for one of TV's most controversial series finales.

Thomas Edison's home and final resting place also boasts an impressive garage, where some of the earliest electric cars are on display.

Take a step into the workshop where Edison and his employees revolutionized the world.

The drawbridge used in the filming of the movie 'Annie' has been in the open position as it was in the movie for decades.

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

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

A Gothic-style abode built to accommodate the church's three resident peacocks.

A historic 1890s architectural masterpiece with an iconic clock tower that, once open to the public, now faces an uncertain future.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

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

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

A prohibition era watering hole for the police.

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

Hear the tales of New York's most notorious criminals.

A WWI fighter plane and turn-of-the-century penny candy shop are among the unexpected features of this Financial District building.

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

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

Revolutionary War casualties fill the only 17th century structure remaining in Manhattan.

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