Now owned by the National Park Service, this location was once home to illegal boxing matches.

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

Storage warehouse of the rich and famous.

Twenty-three trees, each paired with a basalt stone, line a street in Chelsea, continuing an urban project started by German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys.

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

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

The legendary court where emerging basketball players gain their street cred.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

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

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.