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

Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

Take in a rare, face-to-face glimpse of Lady Liberty at this tucked away Red Hook park.

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

The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

This sandstone gorge in New York State's Adirondack Mountains is home to waterfalls, flumes, and more.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

The artist and New York City icon lived, worked and died in this converted carriage house owned by another iconic artist, Andy Warhol.

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

Town full of spiritualists, some of whom are mediums, is still in full swing after 130 years.

Those belting out show tunes might not realize this piano bar marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

A massive forgotten storehouse from 1913 on the Brooklyn Waterfront has a spectacular view of Brooklyn.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.