A one-ton statue of Steve Rogers beautifies the entry to a Brooklyn Bed, Bath & Beyond.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

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

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

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

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

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

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

The real "father of baseball" rests in Brooklyn.

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

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

The pioneering photographer's prints are immortalized inside her childhood home.

Believed to be the birthplace of the United States Marine Corps.

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

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

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

A crumbling staircase in upper Manhattan is all that remains of one of the most important sites in sports history.

The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.

Stunningly detailed mosaics in a New York subway station bring life to the Weimaraners of artist William Wegman's work—and to thousands of commutes.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.