A retired subway car stands alone in a field in the middle of Queens.

Deliciousness abounds at a Guatemalan restaurant masquerading as a pizzeria.

The Vatican of the movie industry turned into an actual church.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.

The engineering feat of the Panama Canal was possible in small part thanks to materials developed in this humble Red Hook foundry.

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

One Brooklyn man's collection of life-size fiberglass statues has taken over his entire yard.

A ruthless Soviet relocation campaign birthed a new cuisine, and this humble restaurant.

The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

This mysterious marker puzzles pedestrians and infuriates geographers.

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

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

This morbid scene depicts the Darwinian drama of death on the African savannah.

The grandiose interior of this bar speaks to its past as home to famous jewelers and railway offices.

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

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.