Brooklyn's Barkaloo Cemetery is the resting place of a scant two bodies.

A working monastery hidden away in Brooklyn once abutted the location of a former inebriate's home.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

Final resting place of two dozen New York City harbor ships.

One-time largest man-made structure in the world will be a park in 30 years.

A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.

Townhouse facade doubles as an RMS Titanic Memorial.

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

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

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

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

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

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

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

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York's only fraction of a street.

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

An accidentally hidden library containing the ephemeral history of New York.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.