"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

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

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

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

Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

New York's oldest and possibly grandest keeper of books.

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

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

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

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."