A US National Historic Landmark since 2006, Green-Wood Cemetery extends over rolling lawns speckled with trees and ponds and is the final resting place of many famous New Yorkers. Admission is free, and visitors can wander the pathways as they wish to view the richly sculpted Victorian-era mausoleums, tombs, and vaults, as well as the later memorials and gravestones. Green-Wood also runs daytime and evening trolley tours and themed walking tours.
Among the must-see graves are those of 20th-century composer Leonard Bernstein, stained-glass artist Louis Tiffany, telegraph inventor Samuel Morse, and members of the piano-making Steinway family—the latter interred in Green-Wood’s biggest mausoleum.