A remnant from the golden age of aviation still in use today, Pan Am's Clipper service took off from this Art Deco gem.

The one-time epicenter of American songwriting is now a little remembered Manhattan commercial block.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

Micro-distillery in Brooklyn produces New York’s first homemade rum since Prohibition.

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.

The most confusing clock in New York.

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

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

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

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.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

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

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

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

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

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

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."