First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

The home of former Heavyweight Boxing Champion, "Gentleman Jim" Corbett.

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

Some of the earliest burial grounds of New York State are to be found hidden away in this quaint town.

The oldest living organism in New York City. Maybe.

No monkeying around, this fountain was really named after the classic sci-fi film.

Nine nice parcels of land along a flight path offer a quiet respite... until a plane soars overhead.

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

Eccentric stone cairns built on a public New York City beach.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

Final resting place of two dozen New York City harbor ships.

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

Staten Island's original central park is the former home of the city water supply as well as thousands of immigrant graves.

Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.

An activist who committed her life to peace and women's suffrage.

A monument stands to the famous suffragist who penned the declaration for women's equal rights, including the right to vote.

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.

Small monoliths of several varieties of stone sit alongside a wooded path in the Bronx.

This Bronx apartment building is officially recognized as the birthplace of hip-hop.

Before online banking and smartphone apps, there was "commuter banking" in the subway in Downtown Brooklyn.

A working monastery hidden away in Brooklyn once abutted the location of a former inebriate's home.

Where infamous mobster and leader of Murder Inc. Albert Anastasia made his home.