This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

Behind a grungy bodega facade, a Poblano family serves rich, home-cooked meals.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

In the middle of downtown Brooklyn lies a 165 year old secret hidden right below the surface (closed to the public indefinitely).

Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

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

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

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

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

A series of sculptures beneath the waves promote ocean conservation and support coral reefs.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

This historic mansion was built as a symbol of love between a husband and wife.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.