One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

The rare American Civil War-era weapon was never fired in anger.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

The highest rapid transit station in the world.

New York's oldest concrete structure is being preserved thanks to the gentrification of Whole Foods.

Also known as the Founding Church of Scientology.

A diminutive memorial marks the site of a successful assassination by a right-wing death squad in America's capital.

This lovely picnic spot featuring thunderous jet landings is an aircraft spotter’s dream.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

The remains of a historic plantation nestled in between a parking lot and the rental car return at Reagan National Airport.

A one-ton statue of Steve Rogers beautifies the entry to a Brooklyn Bed, Bath & Beyond.

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

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

Site of the first pathological and bacteriological research facility in the United States.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

The famous facade of Grand Central Terminal hides a regulation tennis court, and it's not the first one.

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

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

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

The only remaining building in New York to see the inauguration of a president is being slowly overtaken by a grocery store.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

Where sweethearts leave their love locks in the Uruguayan capital.