America's second-oldest brick baseball stadium was home to a legendary WWII series that only sailors got to see.

Picturesque basketball courts sheltered by historical defensive walls and with an enviable sea view.

This pavement line and accompanying statue commemorates the starting point for the world's oldest annual marathon.

A bronze and stone statue made to recognize the life and career of a Russian aristocrat turned English rugby player.

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

A crumbling staircase in upper Manhattan is all that remains of one of the most important sites in sports history.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

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

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

The highest point on the island known for buildings that touch the sky.

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

This hidden oasis features a stunning view of the Hudson River and the Palisades from a castle-like museum.

Built in the 1920s, this co-op in the Bronx feels more like an Italian villa than a typical New York apartment building.

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

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

Surrounded by low rise buildings and partially converted into an auto body shop, this marble archway is the only vestige of a forgotten Manhattan estate.

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

The longest step street in the city.

After the comedian dissed a Connecticut town on his show, they named a sewage treatment plant after him.

This work of art was conceived as a mosaic originally designed to decorate a car dealership.