Devotional offerings and pleas for intercession are left at this Depression-era shrine inside a nature preserve.

The highest natural point in New York City and all of the Atlantic coastal plain.

A quiet memorial marks the spot where the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were executed.

A retired subway car stands alone in a field in the middle of Queens.

A young woman's senseless murder led to the controversial psychological theory of the "bystander effect."

This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.

The final resting place of some of Staten Island's earliest settlers and their descendants.

World Trade Center memorial likened to a woman's sexual organ.

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 graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

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

Staten Island's original central park is the former home of the city water supply as well as thousands of immigrant graves.

Ornate and macabre headstone in one of the country's oldest cemeteries.

New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

Con Edison’s exotic and heat-loving pests.

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

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