A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

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

The graveyard holds the remains of Irish immigrants who arrived in Queens after fleeing the Great Famine.

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

Sip coffee and talk politics at this landmark cafe in Astoria's Little Egypt, a contender for the title of America's first hookah bar.

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

The smallest island in Manhattan is a manmade landfill dominated by a Buddhist peace arch.

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

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

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

A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.

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

Storage warehouse of the rich and famous.

This vacant church in the Financial District was once the heart of New York's first Syrian immigrant community.

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

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

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.