A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.

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

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

On this island, you suck away your garbage via an elaborate pneumatic tube system.

The best B-movies filmed on a shoestring budget were born here.

This outdoor gallery of sculptures along the East River was once a landfill.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

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

A crumbling staircase in upper Manhattan is all that remains of one of the most important sites in sports history.

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

This hidden oasis features a stunning view of the Hudson River and the Palisades from a castle-like museum.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

A large boulder marks the place where the island of Manhattan was purportedly "sold" to the Dutch.

Surrounded by low rise buildings and partially converted into an auto body shop, this marble archway is the only vestige of a forgotten Manhattan estate.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

As telephones become more essential and less stylish one historic Brooklyn building remembers the days when they were a grand celebration of communication.

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

Before online banking and smartphone apps, there was "commuter banking" in the subway in Downtown Brooklyn.

The Underground Railroad passed right through this historic Brooklyn Heights church.

A cargo of beautiful music.

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.