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

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

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.

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

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

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

The most confusing clock in New York.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

Check out the underground party scene at the "Burning Man of Brooklyn."

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

This vacant church in the Financial District was once the heart of New York's first Syrian immigrant community.

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.