An allegedly cursed tree represents a town's reckoning with a racist past.

You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.

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

Take a step inside the picturesque studio of America’s most renowned sculptor.

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.

This outdoor gallery of sculptures along the East River was once a landfill.

If it hadn't been caught in time, a flaw in the design of this Manhattan skyscraper could have led to its collapse.

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

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

A distillery built on (and above!) mobster Dutch Schultz's Prohibition-era underground moonshine business.

This giant monument of the RCA mascot is a beloved fixture in Albany, New York.

A man used his Civil War-era fortune to build this sanctuary in memory of his wife.

This relic of 19th-century infrastructure is one of the few remaining coal gas storage tanks in the U.S.

This historic church with a connection to "Uncle Sam" is now a fraternity house.

The original Uncle Sam was actually a New York meatpacker who is buried under this historic grave.

The Vermont square that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

This unusual apartment building may be Brooklyn's own version of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

On the hills of Bay Ridge stands a house straight out of a fairy tale.

The hero of the women's suffrage movement birth home is now a museum dedicated to her legacy.

A monument to the Mohawk people stands along an old Native American trade route.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

Surrounded by lonely toys, this Massachusetts gravestone marks the final resting place of six children who were murdered by poverty.