Forever immortalized in concrete, this Simpsons etching was crafted by show creator Matt Groening.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

The phone booths of New York City have all but disappeared, but their remains were once found in this "graveyard," sadly now removed as well.

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

Walk over a 150 year old manhole.

A Ukrainian church canteen doles out hearty fare in an East Village basement.

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.

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

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

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

HBO series' stage tucked away in a Greenpoint lot is the largest theatrical set of its kind in the United States.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

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

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.