A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

A replica of a 7th-century church hides in plain sight in the middle of the concrete jungle.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

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

The most confusing clock in New York.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

Join in a Seance at the Swedenborgian Church.

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

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

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

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

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

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

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

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

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A massive art collective tries a new take on Brooklyn's DIY music scene—by making it fully legal.