This morbid scene depicts the Darwinian drama of death on the African savannah.

A 120-year oil leak slowly unleashes more gallons of oil than the Exxon/Mobil disaster.

Nondescript building owned by ExxonMobil working on siphoning Greenpoint Oil Spill out of the ground.

Storage warehouse of the rich and famous.

The oldest Dutch colonial stone house in New York City is a hidden gem on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

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

A graffiti Mecca welcoming artists from around the world.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

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

The graveyard holds the remains of Irish immigrants who arrived in Queens after fleeing the Great Famine.

The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.

You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.

A mysterious statue of a leather jacket-clad rebel leans coolly on an odd yellow clock.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

The legendary court where emerging basketball players gain their street cred.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.

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