One of the world's earliest skyscrapers.

A man's home is his castle.

The statues commemorate the legendary mass killing of escaped circus monkeys.

An impressive collection is dedicated to the legendary beast.

The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.

A mysterious and terrifying public art goblin seemingly meant to inspire local legend.

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

This is not your typical jungle gym.

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

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

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York's only fraction of a street.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

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

A quiet and contemplative oasis in the middle of New York's bustle and riot.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

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

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.