Monuments in New York City

An art installation commemorates journalist Nellie Bly's undercover reporting inside a New York asylum.

This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

The humble fort that saved Washington.

Manhattan's deadly West Side railroad, which killed hundreds of New Yorkers, is remembered by this simple plaque.

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

This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.

Small monoliths of several varieties of stone sit alongside a wooded path in the Bronx.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

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