This Orthodox Church's exterior is rather unorthodox.

A former connection to City Island, it has been abandoned since the 1930s.

Final resting place of Typhoid Mary.

A basement pool hall is the front for some of the best Dominican food in New York City.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

The oldest pastificio in Queens offers visitors fresh noodles and a peek inside the macaroni-making magic.

These sculptures were designed to beautify this neighborhood when it was established in the 1940s.

Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.

The graveyard holds the remains of Irish immigrants who arrived in Queens after fleeing the Great Famine.

The best B-movies filmed on a shoestring budget were born here.

Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

Offbeat arts organization that hosts exhibitions, events, and explorations.

A Collegiate Gothic quadrangle that surrounds an 18th century secondary school whose financing came from the likes of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, among others.

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.

The mosaic Star of David at the front of this store hints that it's no ordinary Italian grocer.

This Bronx apartment building is officially recognized as the birthplace of hip-hop.

A veritable variety of odds and ends.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

The famous facade of Grand Central Terminal hides a regulation tennis court, and it's not the first one.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

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

You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.