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

The seat of Buffalo government is a gorgeous Art Deco palace.

The former sign of this immortal music venue is just that--undying.

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

One of the few Glatt kosher delis in the United States is a cornerstone of its Hasidic neighborhood.

A gigantic 10-foot tall stone man.

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

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

The last remnants of what was once one of the world's grandest hotels can now be found in a Manhattan subway station.

An old dining hall now serves up ghost stories for lusty locals.

Haven for steampunks.

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

Discover the taste of mold.

More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.

Town full of spiritualists, some of whom are mediums, is still in full swing after 130 years.

A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.

Check out the underground party scene at the "Burning Man of Brooklyn."

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

The library of every book lover's dreams.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.