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

A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

A former connection to City Island, it has been abandoned since the 1930s.

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

See wolves, coyotes, and arctic foxes in a natural environment smack in the middle of New York State.

One Brooklyn man's collection of life-size fiberglass statues has taken over his entire yard.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

The largest known open fault in the United States is basically a giant natural refrigerator.

One of the few Glatt kosher delis in the United States is a cornerstone of its Hasidic neighborhood.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.

A Ukrainian church canteen doles out hearty fare in an East Village basement.

Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world’s largest chess board.

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.

Take in a rare, face-to-face glimpse of Lady Liberty at this tucked away Red Hook park.

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

Some of New York's best tacos can be found in the back of an unassuming bodega in Queens.

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

A mysterious echo seems to defy the laws of acoustics.