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

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.

An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.

Serving Central Asian breads that range from cracker-crisp to warm and fluffy, this bakery brings Bukhara to Queens.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.

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

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

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

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

An extensive collection of fine art devoted to man's best friend.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

This lavish room at NYC's French Embassy is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

Three acres of mythology-inspired sculptures are visible from the highway.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

Hear the tales of New York's most notorious criminals.

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

Check out the underground party scene at the "Burning Man of Brooklyn."