All Places in Queens

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

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

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

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

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.

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

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

Some of New York's best tacos can be found in the back of an unassuming bodega in Queens.

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

A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.