The Underground Railroad passed right through this historic Brooklyn Heights church.

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

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

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

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

This 19th century brick building in Brooklyn stands out like the anachronistic landmark that it is.

Dedicated to preserving the history of free Black communities in Brooklyn and beyond.

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

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

This vacant church in the Financial District was once the heart of New York's first Syrian immigrant community.

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

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

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

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.

The oldest Dutch colonial stone house in New York City is a hidden gem on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.

270 million year-old forest of stone.

The best B-movies filmed on a shoestring budget were born here.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

A crumbling staircase in upper Manhattan is all that remains of one of the most important sites in sports history.

Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.

This 220-year-old house is a reminder of New York City's Dutch past.