This statue intended for children to enjoy became a minor political spat.

The last remaining 19th-century tenement from Boston's old West End neighborhood.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

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

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

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

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.

This interactive gallery makes you feel like you've stepped into a fantasy world filled with whimsical monsters.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

An arcade packed with a rotating collection of unique independent video games.

The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.