I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.

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

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

Check out the underground party scene at the "Burning Man of Brooklyn."

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.

Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.

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

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

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

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.