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

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

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

This unusually shaped mountaintop tower looks like a UFO floating over the city.

This hanging crocodile is thought to be the "dragon" that once plagued a Czech city.

A peculiar clock commemorates a historic victory won by ringing the noonday bell an hour early.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.