View rare birds and interact with lemurs at this nonprofit run entirely by volunteers.

A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

The bronze uniforms commemorate the vital role of women during World War II.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

The last living thing to come out of the rubble after 9/11 is now a symbol of hope and resilience.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

A nun spent 16 years painting the stunning Celtic mural that covers the interior of this WWI memorial.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

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