A mysterious dark-skinned Christ statue has been this town's religious center for centuries.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

An unassuming stone building houses New York City's oldest seismic station almost 30 feet below the Bronx.

Legendary private island in the Bronx...devoid of rats.

The loneliest island in New York.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

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

This nearly invisible wire transforms much of the city into one big, symbolic home on the holy day.

This ruined fort hidden at the top of Central Park can't seem to keep from losing its historical plaques.

A Gothic-style abode built to accommodate the church's three resident peacocks.

This giant boulder is sandwiched between apartment complexes in upper Manhattan.

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.

One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

The highest point on the island known for buildings that touch the sky.

The phone booths of New York City have all but disappeared, but their remains were once found in this "graveyard," sadly now removed as well.

This abandoned caretaker's apartment is one of 13 left in the New York Public Library system.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

Rare moles meet activism at this Oaxacan eatery.

Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.