Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

Some of New York's best tacos can be found in the back of an unassuming bodega in Queens.

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

Devotional offerings and pleas for intercession are left at this Depression-era shrine inside a nature preserve.

This elaborate tunnel is the first structure composed of cast concrete in the United States.

Dine on old-school red sauce fare at a former mob hang out and film set for The Sopranos.

Snack on a partially gestated duck egg.

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.

Offbeat arts organization that hosts exhibitions, events, and explorations.

This Queens hospital has stood abandoned for almost 20 years after its patients were secretly relocated in the dead of night.

The Vatican of the movie industry turned into an actual church.

An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

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

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

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

These historic buildings once housed the headquarters of one of the most infamous gangs of New York.