This local landmark is home to art galleries and the area's only community darkroom.

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

A Natural History and Science Emporium.

This ruined fort hidden at the top of Central Park can't seem to keep from losing its historical plaques.

Collect holy water from a Bronx grotto.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head as he died can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.

A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.

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

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

The mosaic Star of David at the front of this store hints that it's no ordinary Italian grocer.

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.

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

One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.

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

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

The studio of influential composer Charles Ives is perfectly reconstructed, hidden in the back of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.

An activist who committed her life to peace and women's suffrage.

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.