This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

A basement pool hall is the front for some of the best Dominican food in New York City.

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

A temple belonging to the largest Buddhist order in South Korea nestled in the middle of New York City.

No monkeying around, this fountain was really named after the classic sci-fi film.

A retired subway car stands alone in a field in the middle of Queens.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

Inside this small museum resides a strange mix of miniature collections passed down over time.

The symbol was surreptitiously built into the river bank by German prisoners of war.

A blacklight journey through a celestial art exhibit.

A whimsical monument deep in this park commemorates the groups that helped build it.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

This dilapidated castle-like structure overlooks the Hudson River at one of its widest points and was once home to nuns.

This once-grand marvel of engineering is now 41 miles of scenic hiking trail.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

This abandoned ironworks was once the most important military supplier in America.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

The mosaic Star of David at the front of this store hints that it's no ordinary Italian grocer.

An activist who committed her life to peace and women's suffrage.

Final resting place of Typhoid Mary.

This old estate is a remnant of when the Bronx was a popular summer destination for wealthy New Yorkers.

An unassuming stone building houses New York City's oldest seismic station almost 30 feet below the Bronx.