Whether you're up or down, the Elevator Museum is worth a stop.

This Queens beer hall preserves a German culture and language that is all but lost.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

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

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

The story of a Floridian city as told through an obscure sport for retirees.

Must form and function forever remain at odds? Not if the Florida Department of Transportation has its way.

The famous boat that once ferried Bogart and Hepburn still floats in Key Largo after being abandoned for years.

This ancient sinkhole-turned-healing-pool is a treasure trove of archeological discoveries and may even be the Fountain of Youth.

A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

The scuba diving training facility was named for the steam that rises from the cave's chimney.

One of many gator theme parks, abandoned in the sugar fields of South Florida.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

This unusually shaped mountaintop tower looks like a UFO floating over the city.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

An office built to look like a giant basket.