A bronze plaque at an intersection in Hoboken marks the place where the game of baseball first took shape.

Where the four original members of the Ramones hung out and revolutionized punk rock.

No monkeying around, this fountain was really named after the classic sci-fi film.

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

Now the site of a high school, this was almost the location of the largest cathedral in the US.

An illegally built ramshackle mansion tucked in the middle of Brooklyn is now being turned into condominiums.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

The oldest living organism in New York City. Maybe.

The home of former Heavyweight Boxing Champion, "Gentleman Jim" Corbett.

This Orthodox Church's exterior is rather unorthodox.

This mysterious marker puzzles pedestrians and infuriates geographers.

The cuisine at this Sheepshead Bay spot tells the story of a displaced Muslim Chinese community.

Nearly four centuries after its founding, remnants of one of the oldest planned communities in North America are still visible in southern Brooklyn.

This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.

One Brooklyn man's collection of life-size fiberglass statues has taken over his entire yard.

The rare American Civil War-era weapon was never fired in anger.

Brooklyn's Barkaloo Cemetery is the resting place of a scant two bodies.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

Stunningly detailed mosaics in a New York subway station bring life to the Weimaraners of artist William Wegman's work—and to thousands of commutes.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

Memorial to the 137 lives lost on a ship fire, the whole hulk of which washed up on the Asbury Park shore.

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

The oldest continuously operating farm in New York State.