Brooklyn, New York
West 8th Street - NY Aquarium Subway Station
New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Brooklyn, New York
Childs Restaurant Building
The flagship building of an early national restaurant chain is a superb example of terra cotta art.
Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn Army Terminal Building B
Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.
Brooklyn, New York
Green-Wood Cemetery
A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.
Brooklyn, New York
City Reliquary
Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.
Brooklyn, New York
Morbid Anatomy Library & Giftshop
A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories
Permanently Closed
Queens, New York
5 Pointz
A graffiti Mecca welcoming artists from around the world.
Queens, New York
Socrates Sculpture Park
This outdoor gallery of sculptures along the East River was once a landfill.
New York, New York
Roosevelt Island Tramway
One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.
New York, New York
Bellevue Hospital
The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.
New York, New York
190 Bowery
The greatest real estate coup of all time.
New York, New York
Yonah Schimmel's Knish Bakery
Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.
New York, New York
Rudolph de Harak Digital Clock
The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.
New York, New York
Hess Triangle
New York City's smallest piece of private property.
New York, New York
Gay Liberation
The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.
New York, New York
Marie's Crisis
Those belting out show tunes in this West Village piano bar might not realize it marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.
New York, New York
'Life Underground' Sculptures
An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.
New York, New York
Pier 54: The Titanic’s Arrival Destination
A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic’s missed arrival.
New York, New York
The High Line
Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.
New York, New York
Union Square Metronome
The most confusing clock in New York.
New York, New York
The "Irving House"
Nope, not Washington Irving's house.
New York, New York
14th Street-Union Square Moving Platforms
The only subway station in the city that still makes use of gap fillers.
New York, New York
Relics of the IRT 14th Street-Union Square Subway Local Platform
Red frames showcase remnants of one of New York's original subway stations.
New York, New York
Streecha
A Ukrainian church canteen doles out hearty fare in an East Village basement.
