America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

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

This hidden oasis features a stunning view of the Hudson River and the Palisades from a castle-like museum.

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

The highest point on the island known for buildings that touch the sky.

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

The inventor of the Coney Island hot dog rests in a grand mausoleum in Brooklyn.

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

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

This recipe is set in stone.

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

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

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

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.