Designed by famed 20th-century architect Cass Gilbert, the future of this abandoned 1908 rail station is currently in limbo.

One of the most dazzling dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History is also one of the oldest.

This morbid scene depicts the Darwinian drama of death on the African savannah.

A group dedicated to promoting boating, kayaking and environmental education programs.

This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.

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

The longest step street in the city.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

The highest rapid transit station in the world.

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

Two large-scale sculptures of Adam and Eve greet visitors in the nude at the Time Warner Center in NYC.

A riverfront park that both remediated and preserved its industrial past.

This unique house, the only one of its kind in Brooklyn, was built as part of a real estate developer's showcase.

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

This simple Manhattan salt house is artfully shaped... well, like a giant granule of salt.

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

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

This Upper East Side apartment co-op was designed as a tuberculosis sanitarium.

Here be dragons.

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

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

These small stands sell Malian snacks to worshippers and passersby after Friday prayers in Harlem.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.