Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

This outdoor gallery of sculptures along the East River was once a landfill.

Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

A Yiddish theater turned movie house turned rock and roll landmark turned gay disco turned bank.

The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.

Dedicated to preserving the history of free Black communities in Brooklyn and beyond.

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

This unusual subway stop was originally a real estate office.

This elaborate tunnel is the first structure composed of cast concrete in the United States.

This striking arch, one of the first architectural elements constructed in Prospect Park, was recently restored to its original glory.

A large boulder marks the place where the island of Manhattan was purportedly "sold" to the Dutch.

The highest point on the island known for buildings that touch the sky.

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

In the Compton Hill Reservoir Park sits a statue whose lack of clothing caused a scandal for the group that commissioned it.

Hundreds of graffiti artists have decorated this flood-wall on the west bank of the Mississippi River.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.