The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

A yoga studio and venue for "chill-out parties" in a former chicken slaughterhouse.

A massive art collective tries a new take on Brooklyn's DIY music scene—by making it fully legal.

A band of aerialists and circus performers putting on incredible shows in East Williamsburg.

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

Check out the underground party scene at the "Burning Man of Brooklyn."

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

Abandoned 19th century homes once occupied by naval officers, soon to be demolished.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

Become a prohibition rebel.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

Feral cats keeping the rodent population at bay all across Greenpoint waterfront.

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.

Reverend Jen's unique museum/living room showcases her troll collection.

Discover the taste of mold.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A veritable variety of odds and ends.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.