A retired subway car stands alone in a field in the middle of Queens.

The last remnants of what was once one of the world's grandest hotels can now be found in a Manhattan subway station.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

Long-forgotten artifacts give incredible insight into New York's most glamorous hotel.

Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

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

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

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

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

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

Those belting out show tunes might not realize this piano bar marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

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

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

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.