A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

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

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

Unlock the secrets of the conjuring arts.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.