A Yiddish theater turned movie house turned rock and roll landmark turned gay disco turned bank.

A massive art collective tries a new take on Brooklyn's DIY music scene—by making it fully legal.

This neighborhood grocery houses a treasure trove of Eastern European delights.

The only subway station in the city that still makes use of gap fillers.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.

One of the most dazzling dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History is also one of the oldest.

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

This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.

A towering cemetery monument honors a man who threatened to expose the Freemasons and paid with his life.

An aptly-named street near the birthplace of the modern LGBT rights movement.

This unusual apartment building may be Brooklyn's own version of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

The world's only statue dedicated to the greatest Great Dane in comic strip history.

A remnant of the original World Trade Center complex continues to serve as a commuter gateway.

At this farm in upstate New York, the former president plotted his reelection campaign.

Currently housing a corporate bank branch this building at the southern tip of Manhattan was once the gateway to luxury vacationing.

The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

This vacant church in the Financial District was once the heart of New York's first Syrian immigrant community.

This humble historic facade hides a history of boozing and the gentlemanly sport of rat-fighting.

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

Built just after the American Revolution, the oldest row house in New York City still stands in Chinatown.

This castle-like building in Manhattan helped destigmatize cancer in the 19th century.

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.