A prohibition era watering hole for the police.

The oldest pastificio in Queens offers visitors fresh noodles and a peek inside the macaroni-making magic.

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.

Cheap pizza and all of your naughty bedroom needs housed in a stunning example of Art Nouveau architecture.

An old dining hall now serves up ghost stories for lusty locals.

This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

This locally-famous crevasse in New York State is icy all year round.

A beautifully designed asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center with a ghost story or two.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

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

This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

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

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.

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

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

This neighborhood grocery houses a treasure trove of Eastern European delights.