Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.

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

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

This Queens hospital has stood abandoned for almost 20 years after its patients were secretly relocated in the dead of night.

This small New York museum celebrates the mountainous artwork of a Russian mystic.

Church in Manhattan holds the bloody sock of Padre Pio, among with many other unusual relics.

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

Feral cats keeping the rodent population at bay all across Greenpoint waterfront.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

Come for the sustainable organic chocolate, stay for the sustainable organic booze.

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

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

A staggering collection of photographs depicting medical, social, and historical change.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

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