The last living thing to come out of the rubble after 9/11 is now a symbol of hope and resilience.

An overgrown collection of miniature buildings still stand as evidence of one couple's obsession with The King.

In the 1920s, this stretch of Roanoke became home to a thriving Black community.

This New York holdover was built to provide housing for shopgirls and still does not allow men above the lobby.

This slender three-story building has also had several famous residents.

After surviving abandonment, this powerful Latin American mural is alive again.

New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.

The sculptor was instructed to add “stallion attributes” to the general's bronze mare.

One of the last mosaic tile facades found in the city.

A tribute to the pop culture icon overlooks this Washington D.C. intersection.

A bronze plaque at an intersection in Hoboken marks the place where the game of baseball first took shape.

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

The site of a fallen tree that protected Americans from British forces during the American Revolution.

The only remaining building in New York to see the inauguration of a president is being slowly overtaken by a grocery store.

A replica of a 7th-century church hides in plain sight in the middle of the concrete jungle.

Those belting out show tunes in this West Village piano bar might not realize it marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.

Manhattan's deadly West Side railroad, which killed hundreds of New Yorkers, is remembered by this simple plaque.

Twenty-three trees, each paired with a basalt stone, line a street in Chelsea, continuing an urban project started by German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys.