Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue was made on landfill then deliberately destroyed — apart from one small, obscure block.

An out-of-service tunnel and nearby remembrances recall the location of a deadly train crash in the New York City subway.

The place where Dvořák composed some of his most famous works.

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

The Father of the Erie Canal has a magnificent grave marker that redefines the term "final resting place."

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

This recipe is set in stone.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

The painter who popularized "bulls" and "bears" as symbols for the stock market didn't get a proper headstone for over a century.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

The real "father of baseball" rests in Brooklyn.

This controversial statue has migrated twice in its life.

A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

One Brooklyn man's collection of life-size fiberglass statues has taken over his entire yard.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

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

Nearly four centuries after its founding, remnants of one of the oldest planned communities in North America are still visible in southern Brooklyn.

The remnants of what was once the largest film studio on the East Coast are hiding in plain sight.

The last remaining 19th-century mile marker along the historic Ocean Parkway.

Neoclassical bank designed by NY architects Helmle & Huberty.

Now the site of a high school, this was almost the location of the largest cathedral in the US.