Serving Central Asian breads that range from cracker-crisp to warm and fluffy, this bakery brings Bukhara to Queens.

A cargo of beautiful music.

Before online banking and smartphone apps, there was "commuter banking" in the subway in Downtown Brooklyn.

Love is in the air along the small street in Brooklyn.

More than 250 sakes are available in an izakaya hidden in the basement of a Midtown office building.

An institution dedicated to the towering buildings that make up skylines in New York City and around the world.

Chefs from Tibet's Kham region offer steaming meat pies and noodle soups in this nook behind a jewelry store.

The Underground Railroad passed right through this historic Brooklyn Heights church.

Pulled from the rubble of one of the worst modern tragedies, a steel crossbeam became a symbol of hope for New Yorkers.

If it hadn't been caught in time, a flaw in the design of this Manhattan skyscraper could have led to its collapse.

Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

A cruise terminal that changes the atmosphere of Red Hook's industrial waterfront.

An experimental, community court opened in 2000 takes a new approach to youth offenders in south Brooklyn.

The humble fort that saved Washington.

The factory that helped produce a dominant form of lighting before Thomas Edison.

This unique house, the only one of its kind in Brooklyn, was built as part of a real estate developer's showcase.

The oldest remaining frame residence in Minneapolis.

Come for the giant taxidermy lion, stay for the knick knacks at this Minneapolis curiosity shop.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Nondescript building owned by ExxonMobil working on siphoning Greenpoint Oil Spill out of the ground.

A group dedicated to promoting boating, kayaking and environmental education programs.

A graffiti Mecca welcoming artists from around the world.