First planned industrial community in the United States.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

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

A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.

The only remaining building in New York to see the inauguration of a president is being slowly overtaken by a grocery store.

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.

Monument to a forgotten NYC disaster that claimed the lives of 1,000.

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

The highest point on the island known for buildings that touch the sky.

Church in Manhattan holds the bloody sock of Padre Pio, among with many other unusual relics.

Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

The first "Hall of Fame" in America was designed by legendary Gilded Age architect Stanford White for what was then the NYU uptown campus.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

This religious museum resides in a church crypt next to the founder's house.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

This South Carolina water tower is an icon of the city of Walterboro, but it also once served as the county jail.

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.