Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.

This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

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

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

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

This sandstone gorge in New York State's Adirondack Mountains is home to waterfalls, flumes, and more.

This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

The artist and New York City icon lived, worked and died in this converted carriage house owned by another iconic artist, Andy Warhol.

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

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

Discover the taste of mold.

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

This abandoned caretaker's apartment is one of 13 left in the New York Public Library system.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.