Though the case is scorched and the buttons half-melted, this hardy handheld gaming device can still run a game of Tetris.

This rare archive of original recordings and photos uncovers the early days of hip hop culture.

New York City's first Modernist house.

A small Second Empire-style building is one of only seven remaining lighthouses on the Hudson River.

This Bronx apartment building is officially recognized as the birthplace of hip-hop.

The second-largest (of only two in the world) large particle collider is the underdog of experimental physics.

The legendary court where emerging basketball players gain their street cred.

This isolated community does not want you to visit.

A tiny islet just off Long Island offers a wealth of infectious curiosities.

This abandoned ironworks was once the most important military supplier in America.

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.

An abandoned tuberculosis hospital moulders on into an uncertain future.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

A millionaire's abandoned swimming pool from the gilded age of one of America's most distinguished families.

The Vatican of the movie industry turned into an actual church.

A historic recreation of the golden age of the Erie Canal, abandoned for some time, slowly being restored.

A hidden architectural treasure in New York's Brooklyn.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest—and favorite—architectural masterpieces was almost lost.

Eclectic architecture in the woods of New York.

This once sprawling resort now sits abandoned, filled with graffiti and vibrant colors from an era long passed.

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

This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.