Ride the subways of yesteryear.

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

A graffiti Mecca welcoming artists from around the world.

The most radioactive spot in New York City can also fix your muffler.

This outdoor gallery of sculptures along the East River was once a landfill.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

Snack on a partially gestated duck egg.

A former seaside jewel built for the everyman is now simply a neglected art deco fortress.

The Vatican of the movie industry turned into an actual church.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

This was once the center of the Birdman cult, and is now a World Heritage Site.

At more than 5,000 years old, these structures are among the oldest free-standing stone buildings in the world.

Burial grounds for more than 1,000 bodies deep under the modern town of Rabat.

This Stone Age solar temple aligns with the sun on each equinox and solstice.

Inside a state forest, the forgotten remains of a Cold War defensive installation.

This fascinating and poignant museum chronicles every imaginable aspect of Spanish colonialism in the Americas.