Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

The front yard of an Upper East Side town house hides the last fragment of one of New York's most famous theatres.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

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

This New York holdover was built to provide housing for shopgirls and still does not allow men above the lobby.

Once considered the height of medical modernity, this structure is now the oldest remaining component of Roosevelt Hospital.

A working metal shop and venue for outrageous art and music shows in a former cannonball factory.

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

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

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

This small New York museum celebrates the mountainous artwork of a Russian mystic.

Check out the underground party scene at the "Burning Man of Brooklyn."

Feral cats keeping the rodent population at bay all across Greenpoint waterfront.

The tiniest little stage in New York.

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

A no-frills cinephile haven known for showing offbeat, underseen films.

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

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

Play heads or tails with thousands of different coins.

A crumbling staircase in upper Manhattan is all that remains of one of the most important sites in sports history.

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

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

Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.