This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

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

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

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

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

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

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.

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.

There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.

A staggering collection of photographs depicting medical, social, and historical change.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

More than 250 sakes are available in an izakaya hidden in the basement of a Midtown office building.

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

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

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

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

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

This neighborhood grocery houses a treasure trove of Eastern European delights.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?