This theater opened in 1998, but both the building and the puppeteers who perform there have a distinguished history.

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

Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.

This nearly invisible wire transforms much of the city into one big, symbolic home on the holy day.

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

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

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A one-ton statue of Steve Rogers beautifies the entry to a Brooklyn Bed, Bath & Beyond.

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

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

The real "father of baseball" rests in Brooklyn.

A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

The pioneering photographer's prints are immortalized inside her childhood home.

Believed to be the birthplace of the United States Marine Corps.