Brooklyn's Barkaloo Cemetery is the resting place of a scant two bodies.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.

Collect holy water from a Bronx grotto.

This recipe is set in stone.

Church in Manhattan holds the bloody sock of Padre Pio, among with many other unusual relics.

A Gothic-style abode built to accommodate the church's three resident peacocks.

Hiroshima survivor on Riverside Drive.

The last living thing to come out of the rubble after 9/11 is now a symbol of hope and resilience.

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

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

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

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

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

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

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.