New York, New York
Jeffrey's Hook Light
Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Brooklyn, New York
Wyckoff House
Oldest surviving example of a Dutch saltbox frame house in America.
Queens, New York
Panorama of the City of New York
The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.
Queens, New York
Flushing Meadows-Corona Park
The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.
New York, New York
Strawberry Fields Memorial
This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.
New York, New York
The Secret Entrance to the Knickerbocker Hotel
An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.
Brooklyn, New York
Friends Quaker Cemetery
19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.
New York, New York
The Lightship Frying Pan
Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.
Queens, New York
Calvary Cemetery
Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.
New York, New York
New York's Hidden Tropical Forest
A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.
New York, New York
Grand Central Terminal Whispering Gallery
Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.
New York, New York
Roosevelt Island Smallpox Hospital Ruins
A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.
New York, New York
Campbell Apartment
A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.
New York, New York
Keen's Steakhouse
Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.
New York, New York
Rose Hill Historic House
The origins of midtown Manhattan's anachronistic wooden farmhouse remain a mystery.
New York, New York
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace Museum
The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.
New York, New York
The High Line
Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.
Brooklyn, New York
Commandant's House
This impressive mansion in Vinegar Hill has some mysterious details in its architecture.
New York, New York
The Hangman's Elm
The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.
Permanently Closed
Brooklyn, New York
Admiral's Row
Abandoned 19th century homes once occupied by naval officers, soon to be demolished.
New York, New York
Yonah Schimmel's Knish Bakery
Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.
New York, New York
New York City Fire Museum
A museum collection honoring the long history of the FDNY is held in a disused Manhattan fire house.
New York, New York
'The Sphere'
This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.
New York, New York
First Shearith Israel Graveyard
Revolutionary War casualties fill the only 17th century structure remaining in Manhattan.
