Home on the Hillside, and home of the first breakfast cereal.

Explore the evolution of printing technology, from cuneiform to Kindle.

A tree full of wishes and footwear.

A towering cemetery monument honors a man who threatened to expose the Freemasons and paid with his life.

This two-room factory has been cranking out the musical signifier of zaniness for a century.

The site of William McKinley's tragic assassination is only marked by an underwhelming boulder.

This massive melon is a recreation of a similar gate from the Pan-American Expo.

An elaborate memorial to a man local legend says died of a broken heart.

Quite possibly the last cross all humans will ever see.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

A former connection to City Island, it has been abandoned since the 1930s.

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

Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

A Gothic-style abode built to accommodate the church's three resident peacocks.

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

This was one of the first (and last) university-built and operated nuclear reactors.

This giant boulder is sandwiched between apartment complexes in upper Manhattan.

A memorial to the first person killed by a motor vehicle in the Western Hemisphere.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

A forgotten relic from New York's bygone trolley system hides in plain sight under a bridge.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

The former home of the reclusive "Weird Wendels" who dominated New York real estate a century before Donald Trump.