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

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

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

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

This interactive gallery makes you feel like you've stepped into a fantasy world filled with whimsical monsters.

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

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

One of the last full-orchestra recording studios in New York City and an acoustical marvel.

An arcade packed with a rotating collection of unique independent video games.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

Come for the sustainable organic chocolate, stay for the sustainable organic booze.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

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

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

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.