From this desk Al Hirschfeld drew his influential caricatures of the 20th century's Broadway stars.

Built just after the American Revolution, the oldest row house in New York City still stands in Chinatown.

A memorial to the first person killed by a motor vehicle in the Western Hemisphere.

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

Set sail on a small scale.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

Join in a Seance at the Swedenborgian Church.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

NYC's legendary underground network for bovine transportation.

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

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

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

The ghost town that was one of New Hampshire's first settlements now exists as a park detailing its history.

The strange, ritualistic-seeming 100+ year old basement of a New Hampshire undergrad society.

One New Hampshire alleyway has become home to a public gallery of feline art.

This 150 foot seven-tiered cascading waterfall is one of the hidden gems of the White Mountains.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.