After traveling the world, one of the last remaining fully-rigged three masted iron-hulled cargo ship in the world found its home in New York.

With a history dating back to Victorian times, this architectural gem is a rare New York tourist haunt worth visiting.

A wooden rollercoaster that still delivers a thrill.

How a century-old glass factory in Queens became a concert venue and arts center.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

The only subway station in the city that still makes use of gap fillers.

A labor of love by laborers in the sign-making business.

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

This morbid scene depicts the Darwinian drama of death on the African savannah.

Try an original egg cream at this museum located inside one of the last surviving old-fashioned seltzer factories in America.

The highest rapid transit station in the world.

The collection is exhibited in a Staten Island building modeled on traditional Himalayan architecture.

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

A touching tribute to the "Queen of Soul."

The oldest Methodist church in the United States has been spreading the good news for over two centuries.

This unusual subway stop was originally a real estate office.

A remnant of the original World Trade Center complex continues to serve as a commuter gateway.

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

Fake subway tiles were installed to cover a design that resembled the Confederate flag—it's unclear if the resemblance was intentional.

Lehigh Valley barge No. 79 still gets tugged along - but now it houses a museum and unusual performances.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

This outdoor gallery of sculptures along the East River was once a landfill.

An aptly-named street near the birthplace of the modern LGBT rights movement.