Along the Palisades skyline are the ruins of a large mansion built in 1911 and demolished in the 1930s.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

This unassuming retro burger joint was billed as “diner of the future” at the 1939 World's Fair.

Featuring the the longest lift span of any vertical-lift bridge in the world.

Pulled from the rubble of one of the worst modern tragedies, a steel crossbeam became a symbol of hope for New Yorkers.

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.

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

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

This simple Manhattan salt house is artfully shaped... well, like a giant granule of salt.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

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

Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.

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

The former estate of the Guggenheims, part of the opulent Gold Coast that inspired the Great Gatsby.

The oldest continuously operating farm in New York State.

Haunted Victorian house that inspired a legendary "Ghostbusters" court ruling.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York's only fraction of a street.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.