Contrary to popular belief, this secluded statue doesn't represent Pennsylvania's founder.

America’s smallest national park site is the former residence of exiled Polish national hero Thaddeus Kosciuszko.

The world's third-largest crystal sphere has sat in the Penn Museum since 1927 with the exception of one outlandish theft.

South Philadelphia is home to Keith Haring's only surviving in situ collaborative public mural.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

Skewer up Kangaroo.

A Red Hook dive bar that is holding onto its roots.

Eccentric stone cairns built on a public New York City beach.

The saddest little diner in New York.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

A series of fish plaques that are embedded in the malls of Ocean Parkway.

One of the largest public housing complexes in New York once visited by Eleanor Roosevelt.

Red Hook's massive public pool, built by Robert Moses.

These century-old townhouses contain some of the first car garages built in the United States.

Where one of Greenpoint's "five black arts" was practiced.

A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.

New York's oldest concrete structure is being preserved thanks to the gentrification of Whole Foods.

A large boulder marks the place where the island of Manhattan was purportedly "sold" to the Dutch.

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.

The flagship building of an early national restaurant chain is a superb example of terra cotta art.

This preserved wilderness hides the remains of a colonial grain mill used to feed George Washington's troops.