This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

A beautifully designed asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center with a ghost story or two.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

Town full of spiritualists, some of whom are mediums, is still in full swing after 130 years.

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

The most confusing clock in New York.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

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

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.