A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

A cargo of beautiful music.

This micro-industry of Latino cuisine along Red Hook's Ball Fields represents a victory in a food fight with the city.

The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

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

A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.

An illegally built ramshackle mansion tucked in the middle of Brooklyn is now being turned into condominiums.

One of the deadliest American air disasters is nearly forgotten in Brooklyn.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.