The last slot car racing arcade in Brooklyn is keeping the dream of speedy little autos alive.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

The oldest Dutch colonial stone house in New York City is a hidden gem on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.

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

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

Con Edison’s exotic and heat-loving pests.

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

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

A historic Black graveyard hidden in the parking lot of one of America's largest malls.

An abandoned horticulture institute gloomily presides over rows of derelict and vine-wrought greenhouses.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.