Architectural Oddities in New York State

Now the site of a high school, this was almost the location of the largest cathedral in the US.

Need to book a room at the Hotel Pennsylvania? Just dial up 6-5000.

Quite possibly the last cross all humans will ever see.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

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

Lehigh Valley barge No. 79 still gets tugged along - but now it houses a museum and unusual performances.

Once considered the height of medical modernity, this structure is now the oldest remaining component of Roosevelt Hospital.

This derelict building used to house infirm Freemasons, their widows, and orphans.

A Collegiate Gothic quadrangle that surrounds an 18th century secondary school whose financing came from the likes of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, among others.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world's largest chess board.

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

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

A WWI fighter plane and turn-of-the-century penny candy shop are among the unexpected features of this Financial District building.

This dilapidated castle-like structure overlooks the Hudson River at one of its widest points and was once home to nuns.

This Orthodox Church's exterior is rather unorthodox.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.