The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

Those belting out show tunes might not realize this piano bar marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

Seller of surplus nuclear research materials.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.