A tiny islet just off Long Island offers a wealth of infectious curiosities.

Final resting place of two dozen New York City harbor ships.

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

One-time largest man-made structure in the world will be a park in 30 years.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

Final resting place of Typhoid Mary.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

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

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

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

Oldest surviving example of a Dutch saltbox frame house in America.

Hiroshima survivor on Riverside Drive.

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.

A Natural History and Science Emporium.

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

A graffiti Mecca welcoming artists from around the world.

A group dedicated to promoting boating, kayaking and environmental education programs.

An illegally built ramshackle mansion tucked in the middle of Brooklyn is now being turned into condominiums.

Three stories above you, your salad is being grown.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

Haven for steampunks.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

Abandoned 19th century homes once occupied by naval officers, soon to be demolished.