This charming candle shop has been in business since 1789.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

This abandoned ironworks was once the most important military supplier in America.

Reforestation in action is the main attraction in this abandoned quarry.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

An everyday Jackson Heights bodega conceals a Mexican seafood paradise.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

Devotional offerings and pleas for intercession are left at this Depression-era shrine inside a nature preserve.

A mixture of strange symbols, ciphers, words and cryptograms carved in 1876 remain unsolved to this day.

Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.

Local lore claims this park is named after a young woman who jumped off a cliff.

Reverend Jen's unique museum/living room showcases her troll collection.

A commemorative plaque hides a door that leads down to the New York Public Library's underground book bunker.

This study room in the New York Public Library saw the creation of one of contemporary America's greatest traitors.

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

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

Spies, love letters, and ghost stories have all left their mark on this home-cum-museum.

Some of the earliest burial grounds of New York State are to be found hidden away in this quaint town.

This shack nestled in a 120-acre forest of maple trees in Mont-Rigaud is a wonderland of sugary syrup.

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

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.