A notorious punk house turned co-op.

In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.

Behind a grungy bodega facade, a Poblano family serves rich, home-cooked meals.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

This abandoned caretaker's apartment is one of 13 left in the New York Public Library system.

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

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

An extensive collection of fine art devoted to man's best friend.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

The artist and New York City icon lived, worked and died in this converted carriage house owned by another iconic artist, Andy Warhol.

Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.

Discover the taste of mold.

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.