Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.

The first "Hall of Fame" in America was designed by legendary Gilded Age architect Stanford White for what was then the NYU uptown campus.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

Manhattan and the Bronx have been playing tug-of-war over this former island neighborhood for more than a century.

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

This "thrice-cursed" island is allegedly home to Captain Kidd's lost treasure.

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.

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

An isolated beacon with a history of grisly murder and a view of some of literature's greatest inspirations.

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

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

Small monoliths of several varieties of stone sit alongside a wooded path in the Bronx.

Where the Model T was made and the assembly line was invented.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

A former connection to City Island, it has been abandoned since the 1930s.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

The secret skeleton of a murdered nun was discovered in this church basement, but the scandal doesn't end there.

This former asylum for Black Americans is haunted by its history of violence and racism.