Rat sculptures try to infiltrate the Graybar Building in an architectural tribute to New York City's nautical history.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

The former sign of this immortal music venue is just that--undying.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

Cheap pizza and all of your naughty bedroom needs housed in a stunning example of Art Nouveau architecture.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

A forgotten relic from New York's bygone trolley system hides in plain sight under a bridge.

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

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

On this island, you suck away your garbage via an elaborate pneumatic tube system.

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

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

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Take in a rare, face-to-face glimpse of Lady Liberty at this tucked away Red Hook park.

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.

A Red Hook dive bar that is holding onto its roots.

A reliquary of pop culture marvels, including the world's largest (and most terrifying) Jack-in-the-Box.

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