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

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

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

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.

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

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

A forsaken wonder in the middle of the East Side neighborhood.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.

A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

Comprehensive gaming collection of over 30,000 electronic games and consoles.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

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

This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.

Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.

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

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.