Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

2,000 barrels of aging beer hidden in a warehouse at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

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

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

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

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

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A touching tribute to the "Queen of Soul."

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

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument.

Former abode of notable poet, complete with literary references and stories of ghosts.

Welcome sign announcing Haverhill, MA, as the birthplace of horror rocker/artist/director Rob Zombie.

An obelisk marks the farmhouse where the founder of Mormonism was born.

The 92-foot-tall structure is based on the aircraft that carried the first Americans into space.

This large cemetery is known as the museum of granite sculptures.

True to its name, this bouncy walkway may be the world’s smallest suspension bridge.

Maybe the only missile installed in a public park, this Cold War leftover was one of the first to carry a nuclear warhead.

A monument marks the beginning of the longest north-south road in the United States.

This store also houses a museum dedicated to the history of these small, historic community shops.