This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

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

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

Red frames showcase remnants of one of New York's original subway stations.

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.

Some of the best Persian food in New York comes from the front window of an unassuming pizza shop.

Amid the clacking of snooker balls, diners tuck into fiery Bhutanese fare.

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.

Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

More than 250 sakes are available in an izakaya hidden in the basement of a Midtown office building.

On the hills of Bay Ridge stands a house straight out of a fairy tale.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

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

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.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.