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

This Queens hospital has stood abandoned for almost 20 years after its patients were secretly relocated in the dead of night.

One Brooklyn man's collection of life-size fiberglass statues has taken over his entire yard.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

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

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

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

A prohibition era watering hole for the police.

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

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

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

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

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

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

More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

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

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

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

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.