This monument pays tribute to the musicians responsible for creating the Sound Of Asbury Park.

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

A wooden theatre that remains the heart of a charming Victorian-era New Jersey enclave.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

Featuring the the longest lift span of any vertical-lift bridge in the world.

One of the remaining markers of an era when Brooklyn and Flatbush were separate cities.

This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

A memorial to the first person killed by a motor vehicle in the Western Hemisphere.

Walk over a 150 year old manhole.

New York City's only wildlife rehabilitation center treats more than 3,000 feathered and furry patients each year.

A playground the size of a city block is a modernist monument to civic values and public housing.

Peek through the gates at this oasis from the city, full of Old English charm.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

A Hell's Kitchen synagogue that has counted stars of stage and screen among its congregation.

On the hills of Bay Ridge stands a house straight out of a fairy tale.

The rare American Civil War-era weapon was never fired in anger.

The original version of Porto's most famous sandwich is just as good here as it was a century ago.

This giant sculpture made of trash is a critique of society's wastefulness.

Ancient catacombs form the foundation for this Rococo orgy of a church.

The stunning interior of this Gothic church is covered in ornate gold details.