Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

A hidden architectural treasure in New York's Brooklyn.

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

This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.

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

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

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

A cargo of beautiful music.

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.

Risk arrest while partying to fund art.

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

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

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

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

Come for the sustainable organic chocolate, stay for the sustainable organic booze.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

This castle-like building in Manhattan helped destigmatize cancer in the 19th century.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

The loneliest island in New York.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.