The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.

Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.

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

This Queens hospital has stood abandoned for almost 20 years after its patients were secretly relocated in the dead of night.

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

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

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

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

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

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

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

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

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

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

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.