During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

Failed state-supported institution meant to rehabilitate students with intellectual disabilities.

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.

Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

The artist and New York City icon lived, worked and died in this converted carriage house owned by another iconic artist, Andy Warhol.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.

Guerilla gardeners reclaimed this abandoned railroad land literally putting down roots.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

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

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.