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

This Upper East Side apartment co-op was designed as a tuberculosis sanitarium.

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

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

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

Two large-scale sculptures of Adam and Eve greet visitors in the nude at the Time Warner Center in NYC.

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

Pulled from the rubble of one of the worst modern tragedies, a steel crossbeam became a symbol of hope for New Yorkers.

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

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York's only fraction of a street.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

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

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

A grand New York post office that is home to mailman Santas, scraps of postal history, and a pneumatic mail system.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

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

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

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

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.