The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.

Waterway populated with abandoned projects, including a submarine.

The last remnants of what was once one of the world's grandest hotels can now be found in a Manhattan subway station.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

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

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

One kilometer of thick brass rod laid out before your eyes.

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

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

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

Visit the site of a subway powered by nothing more than air--and lots of it.

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

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.