A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

New York's oldest magic store.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

This once luxurious Catskills resort is now a haunting ruin.

An abandoned dollhouse factory.

For over 80 years, Mayan ruins stood proudly in a most unlikely location.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

This once-grand marvel of engineering is now 41 miles of scenic hiking trail.

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

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.

This art center is way beyond your average pumpkin-carving operation.

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

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

This sprawling taxidermy collection celebrates the art and history of sport hunting.

An upstate New York garage advertises its services by literally putting the automobile above all else.