A warehouse for all of your architectural details.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

Serving Central Asian breads that range from cracker-crisp to warm and fluffy, this bakery brings Bukhara to Queens.

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

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

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

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

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

Restoring faith in humanity one pie at a time by selling stellar baked goods on an honor system.

A pair of black granite tails dive into a sea of grass in landlocked Vermont.

Antique gaffe kept in the basement of a small Vermont natural history museum.