Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

This monument to a veteran of the Mexican-American War is one of only two in Manhattan that serve as an actual mausoleum.

The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

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

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

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

A WWI fighter plane and turn-of-the-century penny candy shop are among the unexpected features of this Financial District building.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

Con Edison’s exotic and heat-loving pests.

The mass grave of a heroic Revolutionary War regiment sits below an empty lot near the Gowanus Canal.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

This historic old movie house was the scene of one of the Blob's most iconic attacks.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.