The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

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

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

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

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

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

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

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Stonehenge has nothing on Castlerigg’s views.

Giant statue of a disembodied head.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

The violinist who played on as the Titanic sank is buried in this quiet English cemetery.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.