The highest rapid transit station in the world.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

This monument to a veteran of the Mexican-American War is one of only two in Manhattan that serve as an actual mausoleum.

This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

This neo-Gothic former auto showroom is one of the few remaining reminders of Brooklyn's "Automobile Row."

This Queens beer hall preserves a German culture and language that is all but lost.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

This 220-year-old house is a reminder of New York City's Dutch past.

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

Dedicated to preserving the history of free Black communities in Brooklyn and beyond.

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

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.

At this hidden studio, the dying art of taxidermy is alive and well.

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

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

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

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

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.