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

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

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

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

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