Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.

The ballpark in "Pigtown" where the Brooklyn Dodgers made their name was replaced with a huge apartment complex.

A 9-story, poured concrete structure which was used as a glue factory with an indelible smell.

Nope, not Washington Irving's house.

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

This neo-Gothic former auto showroom is one of the few remaining reminders of Brooklyn's "Automobile Row."

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

This translucent sculpture represents a quintessential component of New York City's skyline.

The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.

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

One Brooklyn man's collection of life-size fiberglass statues has taken over his entire yard.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

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

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

The most confusing clock in New York.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

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

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.