Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

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.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

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

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.