New York City Police Museum

This minute museum is chock full of ‘New York’s Finest’ facts and exhibits. Located on a landfilled inlet, it’s housed in a building modeled after an Italian palace. Check out the cool old police vehicles (some sit right in the museum while others, like a 1939 beauty, appear only in photographs), as well as mug shots and weapons of some of New York’s most notorious criminals, from Willie Sutton to Al Capone. There’s also a collection of police shields and uniforms throughout the decades, NYPD leadership histories, a moving September 11 exhibit and a memorial to all officers killed in the line of duty since 1845, called the Hall of Heroes.