One of the deadliest American air disasters is nearly forgotten in Brooklyn.

Nope, not Washington Irving's house.

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

Twenty-three trees, each paired with a basalt stone, line a street in Chelsea, continuing an urban project started by German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys.

On this island, you suck away your garbage via an elaborate pneumatic tube system.

This Upper East Side apartment co-op was designed as a tuberculosis sanitarium.

Built just after the American Revolution, the oldest row house in New York City still stands in Chinatown.

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

New York City's only wildlife rehabilitation center treats more than 3,000 feathered and furry patients each year.

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

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

A plaque immortalizes the spot where the early American spy said his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

Take in a rare, face-to-face glimpse of Lady Liberty at this tucked away Red Hook park.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

The front yard of an Upper East Side town house hides the last fragment of one of New York's most famous theatres.

The one-time epicenter of American songwriting is now a little remembered Manhattan commercial block.

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

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

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