Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.

Off of the Crawfordville Highway in Florida, nature is taking back this decrepit row of Ford trucks.

Recycled junk and fishing buoys litter the yard and facade of this bait shop cum art project.

Would you like a sleeper hold with that?

Leave it to Key West to drop a real-live drag queen instead of a ball to mark the arrival of the New Year.

America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

For divers and music lovers, the Florida Keys' Underwater Music Festival provides the best of both worlds.

Created in 1972, the famous sculptor's intricately detailed monument to San Francisco is overflowing with city landmarks.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

Walk over a 150 year old manhole.

The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.

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

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

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

Unlock the secrets of the conjuring arts.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.