This small road tunnel is the only place where you can cross beneath the Erie Canal.

The oldest Dutch colonial stone house in New York City is a hidden gem on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.

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

Revolutionary War casualties fill the only 17th century structure remaining in Manhattan.

Astonishing collection of helmets, scientific instruments, and medical models.

Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.

This lovely little pond is named after the hundreds of soldiers' corpses that were rolled into the waters during the French-Indian War.

An antique cemetery in New York, this land is home to any number of famed corpses.

A forgotten relic from New York's bygone trolley system hides in plain sight under a bridge.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

"Call for the doctor, call for the nurse... Vote!! said the lady with the alligator purse."

This abandoned ironworks was once the most important military supplier in America.

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.

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

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

A crumbling staircase in upper Manhattan is all that remains of one of the most important sites in sports history.

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.

A mysterious, abandoned building rotting on the Brooklyn waterfront.

Deliciousness abounds at a Guatemalan restaurant masquerading as a pizzeria.

An isolated beacon with a history of grisly murder and a view of some of literature's greatest inspirations.

Play heads or tails with thousands of different coins.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

A prohibition era watering hole for the police.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.