This slender three-story building has also had several famous residents.

Micro-distillery in Brooklyn produces New York’s first homemade rum since Prohibition.

Rat sculptures try to infiltrate the Graybar Building in an architectural tribute to New York City's nautical history.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

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

This subterranean necropolis holds three floors of antler-dug grave caves.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

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

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

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

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

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

New York's oldest magic store.

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

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

This quirky piece of naval artillery has been deafening Canadians for over a century.

This 17th-century house was once the trading hub for two prominent Canadian fur barons.

This exuberantly curated landscape is one of the largest sculpture gardens in Canada.