The supreme shrine of the state.

Home to more than 13,000 pieces of war memorabilia and military equipment.

One of the largest public housing complexes in New York once visited by Eleanor Roosevelt.

The inventor of the Coney Island hot dog rests in a grand mausoleum in Brooklyn.

The highest rapid transit station in the world.

Two large-scale sculptures of Adam and Eve greet visitors in the nude at the Time Warner Center in NYC.

Once a flowing stream and where the USS Monitor, the world's first ironclad, was built and launched.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

This unusual subway stop was originally a real estate office.

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

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

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

This old estate is a remnant of when the Bronx was a popular summer destination for wealthy New Yorkers.

Twenty-three trees, each paired with a basalt stone, line a street in Chelsea, continuing an urban project started by German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

Now the site of a high school, this was almost the location of the largest cathedral in the US.

This simple Manhattan salt house is artfully shaped... well, like a giant granule of salt.

Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.

The studio of influential composer Charles Ives is perfectly reconstructed, hidden in the back of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

This Queens beer hall preserves a German culture and language that is all but lost.

Manhattan and the Bronx have been playing tug-of-war over this former island neighborhood for more than a century.

This Manhattan museum houses one of the largest collections of Spanish art and manuscripts outside of Spain.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

Behind a grungy bodega facade, a Poblano family serves rich, home-cooked meals.