The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.

Red frames showcase remnants of one of New York's original subway stations.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

Queen Anne style apartment house built in 1886.

Neoclassical bank designed by NY architects Helmle & Huberty.

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

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

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

New York's oldest concrete structure is being preserved thanks to the gentrification of Whole Foods.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

An illegally built ramshackle mansion tucked in the middle of Brooklyn is now being turned into condominiums.

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.