Legendary private island in the Bronx...devoid of rats.

This impressive mansion in Vinegar Hill has some mysterious details in its architecture.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

Final resting place of Typhoid Mary.

Hidden behind a gate in Greenwich Village is a little farmhouse that once served as the writing studio of a bestselling author.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.

Where infamous mobster and leader of Murder Inc. Albert Anastasia made his home.

This hidden oasis features a stunning view of the Hudson River and the Palisades from a castle-like museum.

A small part of lower Manhattan is actually made from a bit of England.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

A monument stands to the famous suffragist who penned the declaration for women's equal rights, including the right to vote.

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

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.

A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

Recovered suit of a cannibalistic West African gang.

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.

You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.

The former home of the reclusive "Weird Wendels" who dominated New York real estate a century before Donald Trump.