The former home of the reclusive "Weird Wendels" who dominated New York real estate a century before Donald Trump.

The lost town of Neversink, sunk by New York City.

The quarry was abandoned over 100 years ago, after a massive ammunition explosion ended in tragedy.

This forlorn park is the result of a failed investment turned tax dodge.

Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

This sprawling woodland estate was the brainchild of iconic American industrial designer Russel Wright.

The former estate of the Guggenheims, part of the opulent Gold Coast that inspired the Great Gatsby.

This nostalgic blast from the grooming past is also a working barbershop.

This slender three-story building has also had several famous residents.

Astonishing collection of helmets, scientific instruments, and medical models.

A young woman's senseless murder led to the controversial psychological theory of the "bystander effect."

Chefs from Tibet's Kham region offer steaming meat pies and noodle soups in this nook behind a jewelry store.

An unconventional space for art and science housed in a massive old warehouse.

The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.

Con Edison’s exotic and heat-loving pests.

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

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 Manhattan museum houses one of the largest collections of Spanish art and manuscripts outside of Spain.

A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.

Risk arrest while partying to fund art.

Revolutionary War casualties fill the only 17th century structure remaining in Manhattan.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.