The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

For over 80 years, Mayan ruins stood proudly in a most unlikely location.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

This once luxurious Catskills resort is now a haunting ruin.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

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

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

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.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.