Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

Around 160 years ago, this spot marked the location of a wharf along the shores of the Charles River.

Fake subway tiles were installed to cover a design that resembled the Confederate flag—it's unclear if the resemblance was intentional.

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.

This morbid scene depicts the Darwinian drama of death on the African savannah.

A community farm in the midst of the Brooklyn concrete.

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.

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

A prohibition era watering hole for the police.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

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

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.