On the hills of Bay Ridge stands a house straight out of a fairy tale.

An 1883 schoolhouse now home to collective of artists.

This Manhattan museum houses one of the largest collections of Spanish art and manuscripts outside of Spain.

At this hidden studio, the dying art of taxidermy is alive and well.

Rare moles meet activism at this Oaxacan eatery.

What happens here stays here – unless it affects the whole world.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

The highest point on the island known for buildings that touch the sky.

A hidden architectural treasure in New York's Brooklyn.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

For over 80 years, Mayan ruins stood proudly in a most unlikely location.

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.

Discover the taste of mold.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

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

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.