The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.

An extensive collection of fine art devoted to man's best friend.

The most confusing clock in New York.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

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

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

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

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

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

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

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