Rat sculptures try to infiltrate the Graybar Building in an architectural tribute to New York City's nautical history.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.

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

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

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

This Queens hospital has stood abandoned for almost 20 years after its patients were secretly relocated in the dead of night.

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

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

The one-time epicenter of American songwriting is now a little remembered Manhattan commercial block.

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

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

These mouldering mansion ruins remember a time when the Catskills were nothing but luxury.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

Haunted Victorian house that inspired a legendary "Ghostbusters" court ruling.

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

An old dining hall now serves up ghost stories for lusty locals.

Quite possibly the last cross all humans will ever see.