A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

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

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

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

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

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

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

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

The "Seinfeld" diner.

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

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

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

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

Mystery surrounds a famous marshal of Napoleon's army.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

This remote desert watering hole has a connection to a curious chapter of American history.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.