Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.

A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

Waterway populated with abandoned projects, including a submarine.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

A historic 1890s architectural masterpiece with an iconic clock tower that, once open to the public, now faces an uncertain future.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

Lehigh Valley barge No. 79 still gets tugged along - but now it houses a museum and unusual performances.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.