This lavish room at NYC's French Embassy is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

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

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

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

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

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

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

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

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

Religion and personal struggle gave birth to this collection of concrete angels.

A young woman's senseless murder led to the controversial psychological theory of the "bystander effect."