The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The ballpark in "Pigtown" where the Brooklyn Dodgers made their name was replaced with a huge apartment complex.

A 120-year oil leak slowly unleashes more gallons of oil than the Exxon/Mobil disaster.

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

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

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

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

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

The oldest living organism in New York City. Maybe.

An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

A graffiti Mecca welcoming artists from around the world.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

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.

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

A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.

This monument to a veteran of the Mexican-American War is one of only two in Manhattan that serve as an actual mausoleum.