The return of something once considered a basic part of life.

Once a ferry dock, radio transmitter, and now a new Greenpoint park.

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

American artist J. Alden Weir purchased this 60-acre estate for $10 and a painting.

This urban oasis is a marvelous meld of music and landscape architecture.

A fantastic place to see murals, and an important location in the history of Toronto's legal street art scene.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.

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

Captain America, Sub-Mariner, and the Human Torch were all born in this art deco Manhattan masterpiece.

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

A once-glowing grotto at the bottom of Waikapalae Wet Cave.

On the top floor of an upscale department store stands a lavish restaurant housed in a replica of a luxury French dining car.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

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

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.