Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

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

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

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

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

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

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

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.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

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

The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.

An old-timey wax exhibition campily depicting New Orleans legends and scandals.

This relatively recently abandoned brewery is a tragic reminder of the continuing effects of Hurricane Katrina.