Places Edited by wherearewedude

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

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

Walk over a 150 year old manhole.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

This impressive mansion in Vinegar Hill has some mysterious details in its architecture.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

Featuring the the longest lift span of any vertical-lift bridge in the world.

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

Spies, love letters, and ghost stories have all left their mark on this home-cum-museum.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

The most popular attraction in Southern California was once a flock of ornery bipedal birds that pulled carts.

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

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

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.

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