This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

Headquarters of the world's fourth largest Hasidic sect and the first of many "770s" around the world.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

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

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

The most confusing clock in New York.

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

Memorial to a beloved puppeteer as well as all street performers.

Final resting place of the author who wrote the ghost story "The Turn of the Screw," and his brother, the Harvard doctor and paranormal investigator.

MIT students continue the legacy of beloved professor "Doc" Edgerton through learning by doing.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

Art Deco urban decay at this historical building.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.