The legendary court where emerging basketball players gain their street cred.

“Wagon Jobber" turned smokehouse magnate's family-owned business is still going strong 100 years later.

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

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

Rare moles meet activism at this Oaxacan eatery.

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

This family-owned bakery is one of the last places in Brooklyn to sell the Nation of Islam–inspired bean pie.

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

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

A riverfront park that both remediated and preserved its industrial past.

An eccentric playboy's astounding natural history collection.

A millionaire's abandoned swimming pool from the gilded age of one of America's most distinguished families.

This forgotten graveyard in rural New York State once served a pioneering hospital.

Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.

A historic lighthouse steeped in rumors of ghost and pirate stories.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

A human attendant once directed car traffic from this structure before automated stoplights.

This dilapidated castle-like structure overlooks the Hudson River at one of its widest points and was once home to nuns.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

This giant rock arrived at this quiet park thousands of years ago on the back of a massive glacier.

This once-grand marvel of engineering is now 41 miles of scenic hiking trail.

The first pet cemetery in the United States.

Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.