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One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

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

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

A band of aerialists and circus performers putting on incredible shows in East Williamsburg.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

Offal and flawless onion soup are on the menu at this restaurant that once catered to the workers of Les Halles.

Fully loaded, Tunisian-style sandwiches are on the menu at this unassuming hole-in-the-wall.

For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.