A staggering collection of photographs depicting medical, social, and historical change.

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

This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

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

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

A no-frills cinephile haven known for showing offbeat, underseen films.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

In the middle of downtown Brooklyn lies a 165 year old secret hidden right below the surface (closed to the public indefinitely).

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

This neighborhood grocery houses a treasure trove of Eastern European delights.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

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

Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.