A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

The first "Hall of Fame" in America was designed by legendary Gilded Age architect Stanford White for what was then the NYU uptown campus.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

Join in a Seance at the Swedenborgian Church.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

The most confusing clock in New York.

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.

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

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

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

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

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.

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

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

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.