Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

A bright, colorful telling of the history of Mexico's youngest state.

The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.

Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

This former water source for the City of Brooklyn is now a thriving natural wetland.

This controversial statue has migrated twice in its life.

One of the remaining markers of an era when Brooklyn and Flatbush were separate cities.

This eclectic sculpture garden in Brooklyn, home to a bizarre collection of art, was once a run-down junkyard.

If it hadn't been caught in time, a flaw in the design of this Manhattan skyscraper could have led to its collapse.

This unusual apartment building may be Brooklyn's own version of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

On the hills of Bay Ridge stands a house straight out of a fairy tale.

This miniature village stays behind in the Breuer Building, even as the museums around it come and go.

A century-old magnolia tree is the only living landmark tree in New York City.

A riverfront park that both remediated and preserved its industrial past.

Hidden behind a gate in Greenwich Village is a little farmhouse that once served as the writing studio of a bestselling author.

The site of a fallen tree that protected Americans from British forces during the American Revolution.

A temple belonging to the largest Buddhist order in South Korea nestled in the middle of New York City.

Stunningly detailed mosaics in a New York subway station bring life to the Weimaraners of artist William Wegman's work—and to thousands of commutes.

Devotional offerings and pleas for intercession are left at this Depression-era shrine inside a nature preserve.

Nearly four centuries after its founding, remnants of one of the oldest planned communities in North America are still visible in southern Brooklyn.

The inventor of the Coney Island hot dog rests in a grand mausoleum in Brooklyn.

Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.

Nine nice parcels of land along a flight path offer a quiet respite... until a plane soars overhead.

No monkeying around, this fountain was really named after the classic sci-fi film.