Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

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

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

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

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

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