A remnant from the golden age of aviation still in use today, Pan Am's Clipper service took off from this Art Deco gem.

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

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

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

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

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

Con Edison’s exotic and heat-loving pests.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

A massive forgotten storehouse from 1913 on the Brooklyn Waterfront has a spectacular view of Brooklyn.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.

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

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.