A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

Serving Central Asian breads that range from cracker-crisp to warm and fluffy, this bakery brings Bukhara to Queens.

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

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

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

This Russian bar-restaurant lies within a three-story underground bathhouse.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

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

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

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

An extensive collection of fine art devoted to man's best friend.

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

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

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

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

Those belting out show tunes might not realize this piano bar marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.