An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

Home on the Hillside, and home of the first breakfast cereal.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

Hear the tales of New York's most notorious criminals.

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

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.

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

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

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

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

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

The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.