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

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

The highest rapid transit station in the world.

This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

New York's oldest concrete structure is being preserved thanks to the gentrification of Whole Foods.

Stunningly detailed mosaics in a New York subway station bring life to the Weimaraners of artist William Wegman's work—and to thousands of commutes.

This unusual subway stop was originally a real estate office.

New York City's first Modernist house.

This simple Manhattan salt house is artfully shaped... well, like a giant granule of salt.

The flagship building of an early national restaurant chain is a superb example of terra cotta art.

The pioneering photographer's prints are immortalized inside her childhood home.

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

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

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.

This nearly invisible wire transforms much of the city into one big, symbolic home on the holy day.

This humble historic facade hides a history of boozing and the gentlemanly sport of rat-fighting.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

This old estate is a remnant of when the Bronx was a popular summer destination for wealthy New Yorkers.

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

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

Red frames showcase remnants of one of New York's original subway stations.

Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.