Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

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

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

A WWI fighter plane and turn-of-the-century penny candy shop are among the unexpected features of this Financial District building.

The famous facade of Grand Central Terminal hides a regulation tennis court—and it's not the first one.

Two large-scale sculptures of Adam and Eve greet visitors in the nude at the Time Warner Center in NYC.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Site of the first pathological and bacteriological research facility in the United States.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

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

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

On this island, you suck away your garbage via an elaborate pneumatic tube system.

A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.

An art installation commemorates journalist Nellie Bly's undercover reporting inside a New York asylum.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

New Preston and Kent, Connecticut - where Friday the 13th, Part 2 was filmed.

What remains of the simple red brick chapel where the women's rights movement began.

Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.

World's largest herd of white deer populate a former U.S. Army depot.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.