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

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.

An abandoned tuberculosis hospital moulders on into an uncertain future.

This former tuberculosis treatment facility now stands at the center of a public park.

Site of the first pathological and bacteriological research facility in the United States.

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

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

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

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

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

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

New York's oldest magic store.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.