Places meltingknight Wants to Go

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.

This recently uncovered ad for Lindsay's run at Mayor in 1965 had been hiding for decades underneath a billboard.

A memorial to the 1913 tragedy that helped protect the workers of the future.

This Bronx apartment building is officially recognized as the birthplace of hip-hop.

Fabrication workshop where the encasement for One World Trade Center's beacon was constructed.

This backwater graveyard in the Hamptons became a trendy burial spot and posthumous status symbol for famous artists.

A 9-story, poured concrete structure which was used as a glue factory with an indelible smell.

Once called Winthrop Park in 1889, home to a decidedly sexy tribute to the Monitor vs. Merrimac battle.

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

Etchings in a pile of boulders on the Long Island Sound are a monument to vanquished native peoples.

Alexander Milliner, a favorite of General Washington, is interred at Mt. Hope Cemetery along with 80 other Revolutionary War veterans.

This unique crypt designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his longtime friend was not completed in either man's lifetime.

Retribution for death of infamous mob boss Franie Yale was a case of mistaken identity.

The "last holdout of the Confederacy” actually sat at the edge of the Canadian border.

Eight whimsical acres of metal art.

Once a flowing stream and where the USS Monitor, the world's first ironclad, was built and launched.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

All that remains of one of the Civil War's more deadly POW camps is a simple flagstone.

Spike Lee's provocative film is officially honored right where it was made, the first time a work of art was used as a secondary street name.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.

As telephones become more essential and less stylish one historic Brooklyn building remembers the days when they were a grand celebration of communication.

Legendary private island in the Bronx...devoid of rats.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".