This was once the home of Gahan's Saloon, Denver's most storied speakeasy.

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

A museum devoted to bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories through exhibitions, education and public programming.

The return of something once considered a basic part of life.

For 20 years, local pumpkins have met their fate on the iron fence surrounding this Cobble Hill home.

Where infamous mobster and leader of Murder Inc. Albert Anastasia made his home.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

This recipe is set in stone.

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

This neighborhood grocery houses a treasure trove of Eastern European delights.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

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

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

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

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

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

A massive forgotten storehouse from 1913 on the Brooklyn Waterfront has a spectacular view of Brooklyn.

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

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

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.