Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.

A riverfront park that both remediated and preserved its industrial past.

Designed by famed 20th-century architect Cass Gilbert, the future of this abandoned 1908 rail station is currently in limbo.

These sculptures were designed to beautify this neighborhood when it was established in the 1940s.

This quiet, scenic spot was once a busy resort paradise

Preachers and shipbuilders collaborated to create a place of worship in this island community

A former connection to City Island, it has been abandoned since the 1930s.

Become a prohibition rebel.

The Pickle Guys stand as a salt-stained holdout of the Lower East Side’s historic pushcart culture.

Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.

A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.

Where the four original members of the Ramones hung out and revolutionized punk rock.

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

Coney Island’s last surviving haunted ride.

This 19th century wooden span is one of only four retractile bridges in the United States.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

The world’s largest collection of Tiffany glass sits in a warehouse in Queens.

Gustave Eiffel's masterpiece until the Eiffel Tower was built.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

This beloved American snack was conceived by a hungry coal miner.

This reconstructed Revolutionary War-era residence marks the first major battle after the Declaration of Independence

A mysterious statue of a leather jacket-clad rebel leans coolly on an odd yellow clock.

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.