This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

Long-forgotten artifacts give incredible insight into New York's most glamorous hotel.

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

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

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

Those belting out show tunes might not realize this piano bar marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

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

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

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

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

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

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

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.