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.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

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

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

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

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

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

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

An accidentally hidden library containing the ephemeral history of New York.

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

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.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

An ancient engraving by the Cammeraygal people was uncovered in the transformation of a North Sydney industrial site.

Large enough to house an internal gift shop.

These mythological giants take time out of their busy day guarding a Victorian market to let you know what time it is.

Hidden among popular Sydney golf courses is a little remembered graveyard populated by smallpox victims.

Taxidermy of the racing horse with a huge heart, who inspired hope in the Depression.

An unphotographable nightly march of tens of thousands of "fairy penguins" from sea to shore.

This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.