You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

Unicorns, elephants, and bears, oh my!

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.

The one-time office of the architectural firm that ushered in the Gilded Age is now a Club Monaco.

From this desk Al Hirschfeld drew his influential caricatures of the 20th century's Broadway stars.

New York City's first Modernist house.

Nope, not Washington Irving's house.

Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.

The former sign of this immortal music venue is just that--undying.

The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.

Currently housing a corporate bank branch this building at the southern tip of Manhattan was once the gateway to luxury vacationing.

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

Red frames showcase remnants of one of New York's original subway stations.

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

The front yard of an Upper East Side town house hides the last fragment of one of New York's most famous theatres.

The one-time epicenter of American songwriting is now a little remembered Manhattan commercial block.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.