This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

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

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.

This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.

Once considered the height of medical modernity, this structure is now the oldest remaining component of Roosevelt Hospital.

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

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

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

Ever wanted the laymen's version of your credit card fine print?

A no-frills cinephile haven known for showing offbeat, underseen films.

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

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

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

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

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

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

Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.

The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.

What happens here stays here – unless it affects the whole world.

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

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

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