Brooklyn, New York
Red Hook Play Center
Red Hook's massive public pool, built by Robert Moses.
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Brooklyn, New York
Smith-9 Street Station
The highest rapid transit station in the world.
New York, New York
Roosevelt Island Tramway
One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.
New York, New York
Zaragoza Mexican Deli and Grocery
Behind a grungy bodega facade, a Poblano family serves rich, home-cooked meals.
New York, New York
Physical Graffiti Building
The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.
New York, New York
Slocum Memorial Fountain
Monument to a forgotten NYC disaster that claimed the lives of 1,000.
New York, New York
Hare Krishna Tree
One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.
New York, New York
Tompkins Square Temperance Fountain
A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.
New York, New York
The Oldest Fence in New York
Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.
New York, New York
Trinity Churchyard
This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.
Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn Daily Eagle's Eagle
This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.
Brooklyn, New York
770 Eastern Parkway
Headquarters of the world's fourth largest Hasidic sect and the first of many "770s" around the world.
New York, New York
The New York Earth Room
A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.
San Francisco, California
Rincon Center Murals
These WWII-era murals were initially booed as a libelous portrayal of the American dream but have survived multiple attempts to have them destroyed.
Permanently Closed
San Francisco, California
Vaillancourt Fountain
This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.
New York, New York
Collyer Brothers Park
Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.
New York, New York
Site of Columbia University's Nuclear Reactor
This was one of the first (and last) university-built and operated nuclear reactors.
New York, New York
Hamilton Grange
The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.
New York, New York
Audubon Mural Project
Walking around West Harlem reveals a scavenger hunt of beautiful bird murals.
New York, New York
The Last Remnants of the Polo Grounds
A crumbling staircase in upper Manhattan is all that remains of one of the most important sites in sports history.
New York, New York
P.S. 186
From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.
New York, New York
6 1/2 Avenue: Manhattan’s Secret Street
Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York’s only fraction of a street.
New York, New York
Septuagesimo Uno
The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."
New York, New York
Strawberry Fields Memorial
This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.
