This Bronx apartment building is officially recognized as the birthplace of hip-hop.

A large boulder marks the place where the island of Manhattan was purportedly "sold" to the Dutch.

Even for Egyptian royalty, the afterlife was bring-your-own-beef.

Residents of this Brooklyn neighborhood may be unaware their houses sit atop a buried trolley graveyard.

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

Lehigh Valley barge No. 79 still gets tugged along - but now it houses a museum and unusual performances.

The studio of influential composer Charles Ives is perfectly reconstructed, hidden in the back of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Manhattan and the Bronx have been playing tug-of-war over this former island neighborhood for more than a century.

Depression-era fun lives on in this Harlem museum dedicated to the sport of the street.

These small stands sell Malian snacks to worshippers and passersby after Friday prayers in Harlem.

During the American Revolution, this mansion hosted failed peace talks between the British and Americans.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

The humble fort that saved Washington.

The legendary court where emerging basketball players gain their street cred.

Gang fights don't just happen on the streets, they happen under them too.

Once thought to be the fabled Holy Grail, it is now known to be an oil lamp.

Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.

For 20 years, local pumpkins have met their fate on the iron fence surrounding this Cobble Hill home.

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

One of the last taxidermists in New York City.

Monument to a forgotten NYC disaster that claimed the lives of 1,000.

2,000 barrels of aging beer hidden in a warehouse at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

A mysterious statue of a leather jacket-clad rebel leans coolly on an odd yellow clock.

The mass grave of a heroic Revolutionary War regiment sits below an empty lot near the Gowanus Canal.