Yankee Stadium is the home to one of the greatest teams in sports, the New York Yankees. The first stadium was built in 1923. At that time it became the first ballpark to have 58,000 seats. After renovation, the stadium was opened in 2009 featuring design elements from the old ballpark. Today, the Yankee Stadium is the second most expensive stadium in the world.

Bronx County Courthouse was built in 1933. It houses the District Attorney, Surrogate's Court, Sheriff, Supreme Court, Public Administrator, Bronx Borough President, and other civic agencies. The steel-framed building is characterized by amazing architecture and design. It features limestone facade, copper Art Deco windows and a large number of spectacular sculptures.

Bronx Museum of the Arts was opened in 1971. It features over 800 pieces of contemporary art and also 20th-century art. The museum houses works by artists of African, Asian, and Latin American ancestry. It holds 11,000 square feet of galleries, classrooms, and an auditorium. The museum exhibits paintings, photographs, prints, drawings, and mixed media.

Bronx Zoo, opened in 1899 is the largest metropolitan zoo in the United States. It features indoor and outdoor exhibits. The zoo's highlights are the Congo Gorilla, the Forest Jungle World and the Butterfly Garden. It is a modern zoo, that places animals into recreations of their own ecosystems.

Arthur Avenue is usually called by New Yorkers "the real Little Italy of the city". It is the place where you can find the best Italian bread, pasta, meat, pastries and espresso machines. This neighborhood beats its other rivals in the sheer number of establishments offering fine Italian-American foods, dining, house wares and other goods.

The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) is one of the premier botanical gardens in the United States, located in the Bronx in New York City. It spans some 250 acres (100 ha) of Bronx Park and is home to some of the world's leading plant laboratories. It offers major exhibitions and flower shows throughout the year, drawing over 800,000 visitors annually. The New York Botanical Garden is an advocate for the plant kingdom. The Garden pursues its mission through its role as a museum of living plant collections arranged in gardens and landscapes across its National Historic Landmark site; through its comprehensive education programs in horticulture and plant science; and through the wide-ranging research programs of the International Plant Science Center. Sightseers can easily spend a day admiring the serene cascade waterfall, wetlands and a 50-acre (20 ha) tract of never-harvested oaks, American beeches, cherry, birch, tulip and white ash trees.

The Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum, located at 203 Amity St. in Baltimore, Maryland, is the former home of American writer Edgar Allan Poe in the 1830s. Now open as a museum, the small unassuming structure is a typical row home, and also houses the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1972. The home is open to the public as a modest museum with self-guided tours. Displays in the house include a lock of Poe's hair, some original china that once belonged to John Allan, as well as many other Poe-related images. The museum and the Poe Society also host a number of Poe events throughout the year. It claims, for example, the largest Poe birthday celebration in the world every January at the Westminster Hall and Burying Ground. The organization also observes the annual visit of the mysterious Poe Toaster and helps protect his identity.