Neoclassical bank designed by NY architects Helmle & Huberty.

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

2 square block factory in Greenpoint erected in 1936.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

Pink, packed sanctuary and home of the world's fullest-time Elvis fanatic.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

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

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A 20th-century picture show in 3-D.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.