This tiny structure was built by the creator of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Several times a year, during low tide, two pairs of historic train tracks are revealed on this New Jersey beach.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

Steam out your ears for New Year's Eve.

Four cars from the old system were once on display, but were removed in 2014.

The first evidence of some of the Earth's earliest life was found in this fossilized undersea grotto.

These century-old townhouses contain some of the first car garages built in the United States.

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

A Ukrainian church canteen doles out hearty fare in an East Village basement.

Once a month, an Indonesian feast appears inside an Elmhurst church hall.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

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

An everyday Jackson Heights bodega conceals a Mexican seafood paradise.

A beautiful multicolored mound formed by the mineral deposits of the Orenda Spring.

Chefs from Tibet's Kham region offer steaming meat pies and noodle soups in this nook behind a jewelry store.

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.

Fossilized sea bottom and lime quarry.

New York City's first Modernist house.

This Russian bar-restaurant lies within a three-story underground bathhouse.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

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

This mysterious marker puzzles pedestrians and infuriates geographers.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.