A collection of artifacts from two worldwide industries that called Endicott, NY home.

A commemorative plaque hides a door that leads down to the New York Public Library's underground book bunker.

The only gallery in New York dedicated to olfactory art and the exploration of scent in art.

A tribute to the hard-working men and women of Grumman, who crafted F-14 fighter jets.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

Adherence to strict Jewish laws is required to enter this ultra-conservative New York village.

The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.

The one-time office of the architectural firm that ushered in the Gilded Age is now a Club Monaco.

After surviving abandonment, this powerful Latin American mural is alive again.

What’s a sure fire way to end up in jail in New York in the 1920s? Peddling bad moonshine.

The childhood home of one of America's greatest unsung troubadours still stands in a much changed Brooklyn neighborhood.

A 10-foot-tall concrete Alley Oop statue left over from World War II now stands on the side of the road.

A riverfront park that both remediated and preserved its industrial past.

The poet's been ambling through these New York woods since 1940.

Fake subway tiles were installed to cover a design that resembled the Confederate flag—it's unclear if the resemblance was intentional.

This relic of 19th-century infrastructure is one of the few remaining coal gas storage tanks in the U.S.

The most radioactive spot in New York City can also fix your muffler.

This elaborate High Victorian Gothic structure is one of the world's few 16-sided buildings.

Devotional offerings and pleas for intercession are left at this Depression-era shrine inside a nature preserve.

Staten Island's original central park is the former home of the city water supply as well as thousands of immigrant graves.

This backwater graveyard in the Hamptons became a trendy burial spot and posthumous status symbol for famous artists.

A playground the size of a city block is a modernist monument to civic values and public housing.

This outdoor gallery of sculptures along the East River was once a landfill.

Compensation for the destruction of a historic shipyard.