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

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

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

World Trade Center memorial likened to a woman's sexual organ.

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

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

This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.

Adherence to strict Jewish laws is required to enter this ultra-conservative New York village.

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

These mystical miniature houses bring a touch of magic to the New Jersey woods.

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

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

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

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

This mysterious marker puzzles pedestrians and infuriates geographers.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

Possible relics of the ancient Roman city are hidden in this restaurant's façade.

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

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.