A forsaken wonder in the middle of the East Side neighborhood.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

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

This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.

Three acres of mythology-inspired sculptures are visible from the highway.

This Queens hospital has stood abandoned for almost 20 years after its patients were secretly relocated in the dead of night.

A working metal shop and venue for outrageous art and music shows in a former cannonball factory.

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

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

This interactive gallery makes you feel like you've stepped into a fantasy world filled with whimsical monsters.

The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”

This sandstone gorge in New York State's Adirondack Mountains is home to waterfalls, flumes, and more.

The artist and New York City icon lived, worked and died in this converted carriage house owned by another iconic artist, Andy Warhol.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

Discovered by cows, these upstate New York show caves are presented with a healthy dose of psychedelic folk art.

The iconic Manhattan corner that was once the site of the Beastie Boys' fake clothing store.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.