Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

The mysterious canine hides atop a drain pipe on the back of the building, some say as a sneaky shoutout to Yale.

The final resting place of many of New Jersey's most famous residents, including U.S. history's most in-vogue antagonist, Aaron Burr.

One man's lifelong obsession with death.

This huge work of functional public art replaced a landfill in New Jersey's Meadowlands.

This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.

On the Hudson resides one of the largest clocks in the world.

A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.

A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

A bronze plaque at an intersection in Hoboken marks the place where the game of baseball first took shape.

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

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

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”