An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.

This landmark building is now a vibrant performing arts space with musical acts from around the world.

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

Where the four original members of the Ramones hung out and revolutionized punk rock.

This Orthodox Church's exterior is rather unorthodox.

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

The oldest pastificio in Queens offers visitors fresh noodles and a peek inside the macaroni-making magic.

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

A retired subway car stands alone in a field in the middle of Queens.

The Vatican of the movie industry turned into an actual church.

This Queens hospital has stood abandoned for almost 20 years after its patients were secretly relocated in the dead of night.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

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

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

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.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

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

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

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

This abandoned artificial island off the coast of New York City is now home to dozens of harbor seals.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

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

Final resting place of two dozen New York City harbor ships.