Once called Winthrop Park in 1889, home to a decidedly sexy tribute to the Monitor vs. Merrimac battle.

Enormous one time fiber mill now houses local artists and small businesses.

This recently uncovered ad for Lindsay's run at Mayor in 1965 had been hiding for decades underneath a billboard.

A small piece of the composer's New York home lives on in the center of Czech culture in Manhattan.

A retired oil tanker now offering amazing views of New York City.

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

The home of one of America's most beloved fictional characters has become a real world landmark.

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

The place where Dvořák composed some of his most famous works.

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

A community theatre in Brooklyn that brings Country to New York and New York to Country.

As telephones become more essential and less stylish one historic Brooklyn building remembers the days when they were a grand celebration of communication.

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

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

This landmark building is now a vibrant performing arts space with musical acts from around the world.

From this desk Al Hirschfeld drew his influential caricatures of the 20th century's Broadway stars.

A well-worn marker in a forgotten alleyway is all that remains of what had been one of Manhattan's most beautiful buildings.

The inventor of the Coney Island hot dog rests in a grand mausoleum in Brooklyn.

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

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.

The mysterious image is believed to show Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, in a beautiful blue dress.

Here be dragons.

This eclectic sculpture garden in Brooklyn, home to a bizarre collection of art, was once a run-down junkyard.

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.