A remnant of the original World Trade Center complex continues to serve as a commuter gateway.

In 1986, Keith Haring was arrested for painting this anti-drug mural on a Harlem handball court.

The mysterious image is believed to show Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, in a beautiful blue dress.

Manhattan and the Bronx have been playing tug-of-war over this former island neighborhood for more than a century.

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

This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.

Currently housing a corporate bank branch this building at the southern tip of Manhattan was once the gateway to luxury vacationing.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

Built in the 1920s, this co-op in the Bronx feels more like an Italian villa than a typical New York apartment building.

Final resting place of Typhoid Mary.

Surrounded by low rise buildings and partially converted into an auto body shop, this marble archway is the only vestige of a forgotten Manhattan estate.

Here be dragons.

This outdoor gallery of sculptures along the East River was once a landfill.

New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.

An aptly-named street near the birthplace of the modern LGBT rights movement.

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

Monument to a forgotten NYC disaster that claimed the lives of 1,000.

This theater opened in 1998, but both the building and the puppeteers who perform there have a distinguished history.

Stunningly detailed mosaics in a New York subway station bring life to the Weimaraners of artist William Wegman's work—and to thousands of commutes.

Small monoliths of several varieties of stone sit alongside a wooded path in the Bronx.

A replica of a 7th-century church hides in plain sight in the middle of the concrete jungle.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.

A monument stands to the famous suffragist who penned the declaration for women's equal rights, including the right to vote.