This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

An unconventional space for art and science housed in a massive old warehouse.

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

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

The remains of what was once the world's steepest passenger funicular.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

Possible relics of the ancient Roman city are hidden in this restaurant's façade.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

Final resting place of two dozen New York City harbor ships.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

The most confusing clock in New York.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

A massive forgotten storehouse from 1913 on the Brooklyn Waterfront has a spectacular view of Brooklyn.

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.