A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

This former water source for the City of Brooklyn is now a thriving natural wetland.

Snack on a partially gestated duck egg.

This Queens beer hall preserves a German culture and language that is all but lost.

Amid the clacking of snooker balls, diners tuck into fiery Bhutanese fare.

Shop while you wait for a table in this tiny Indonesian eatery within a mini-mart.

Chefs from Tibet's Kham region offer steaming meat pies and noodle soups in this nook behind a jewelry store.

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

A collaborative art project that transformed a neighborhood in NYC's Queens.

A hidey-hole sandwiched between cellphone, DVD, and jewelry stores features Tibetan delights.

The best B-movies filmed on a shoestring budget were born here.

Serving Central Asian breads that range from cracker-crisp to warm and fluffy, this bakery brings Bukhara to Queens.

An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.

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

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

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

What was once a vast naval cemetery is now home to nesting birds and pollinating bees.

This eclectic sculpture garden in Brooklyn, home to a bizarre collection of art, was once a run-down junkyard.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

For 20 years, local pumpkins have met their fate on the iron fence surrounding this Cobble Hill home.

A Collegiate Gothic quadrangle that surrounds an 18th century secondary school whose financing came from the likes of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, among others.