A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world's largest chess board.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

From this desk Al Hirschfeld drew his influential caricatures of the 20th century's Broadway stars.

Compensation for the destruction of a historic shipyard.

The factory that helped produce a dominant form of lighting before Thomas Edison.

Come for the sustainable organic chocolate, stay for the sustainable organic booze.

Nearly four centuries after its founding, remnants of one of the oldest planned communities in North America are still visible in southern Brooklyn.

This unassuming retro burger joint was billed as “diner of the future” at the 1939 World's Fair.

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

Brooklyn vintners creating world-class wine in a city not known for its vineyards.

Four cars from the old system were once on display, but were removed in 2014.

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

Filled with history, this cemetery is maintained each summer by a few hungry goats.

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

Tucked behind New Jersey's abandoned Gingerbread Castle lie the eerie ruins of a once-flourishing paper mill.

A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.

Edison's cast-in-place concrete houses were a failure, but way ahead of their time.

These unassuming lighthouses have seen the first reading of the Pledge of Allegiance, the first wireless transmission, and more than one mystery.

Staten Island's original central park is the former home of the city water supply as well as thousands of immigrant graves.

On the Hudson resides one of the largest clocks in the world.