This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

This Queens beer hall preserves a German culture and language that is all but lost.

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

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

This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

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