A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

Residents of this Brooklyn neighborhood may be unaware their houses sit atop a buried trolley graveyard.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

The most confusing clock in New York.

A World War II-era submarine is stuck in the mud in New Jersey.

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

This New York holdover was built to provide housing for shopgirls and still does not allow men above the lobby.

A grand New York post office that is home to mailman Santas, scraps of postal history, and a pneumatic mail system.

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

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

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

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

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

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

The origins of midtown Manhattan's anachronistic wooden farmhouse remain a mystery.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

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.