A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

One kilometer of thick brass rod laid out before your eyes.

A graffiti Mecca welcoming artists from around the world.

A collaborative art project that transformed a neighborhood in NYC's Queens.

The graveyard holds the remains of Irish immigrants who arrived in Queens after fleeing the Great Famine.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

The oldest private residence in New York City.

The remains of what was once the world's steepest passenger funicular.

An abandoned subway tunnel that could have reinvigorated Staten Island still lies somewhere beneath this Brooklyn park.

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

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

A mysterious, abandoned building rotting on the Brooklyn waterfront.

The unassuming structure was part of a Major League Baseball stadium.

New York's oldest concrete structure is being preserved thanks to the gentrification of Whole Foods.

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

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

Once a flowing stream and where the USS Monitor, the world's first ironclad, was built and launched.

The best B-movies filmed on a shoestring budget were born here.

Some of New York's best tacos can be found in the back of an unassuming bodega in Queens.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

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

Once considered a marvel of engineering, this 107-mile canal played an integral role in building New York City.

This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.

Walk over a 150 year old manhole.