A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.

What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.

Surprisingly delicious Asian-style hot dogs.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

Yo, Adrian!

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

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

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

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

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

An accidentally hidden library containing the ephemeral history of New York.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

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

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.