The famous author's cottage hideaway.

Dedicated to preserving the history of free Black communities in Brooklyn and beyond.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

This Upper East Side apartment co-op was designed as a tuberculosis sanitarium.

A plaque immortalizes the spot where the early American spy said his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

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

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

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

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

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

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

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

The artist and New York City icon lived, worked and died in this converted carriage house owned by another iconic artist, Andy Warhol.