Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

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

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

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

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.

Meet some of the most prominent figures in Black history through life-sized wax models.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

Spike Lee's provocative film is officially honored right where it was made, the first time a work of art was used as a secondary street name.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

A remnant from the golden age of aviation still in use today, Pan Am's Clipper service took off from this Art Deco gem.

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

This New York holdover was built to provide housing for shopgirls and still does not allow men above the lobby.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

Ever wanted the laymen's version of your credit card fine print?

The most confusing clock in New York.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.