One Brooklyn man's collection of life-size fiberglass statues has taken over his entire yard.

A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

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

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world's largest chess board.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

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

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

The iconic Manhattan corner that was once the site of the Beastie Boys' fake clothing store.

A staggering collection of photographs depicting medical, social, and historical change.

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

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

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

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

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