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A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

One nutty businessman’s unique tribute to an ancient tool.

The tree is thought to be the oldest oak in Texas and was once crowned state champion for its monumental size.

A community farm in the midst of the Brooklyn concrete.

This suburban enclave is home to a very unique art exhibit.

Brooklyn's Barkaloo Cemetery is the resting place of a scant two bodies.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

Check out the underground party scene at the "Burning Man of Brooklyn."

This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

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

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

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 band of aerialists and circus performers putting on incredible shows in East Williamsburg.

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

This sculptural piece by the artist Tom Otterness doubles as a jungle gym.

This theater opened in 1998, but both the building and the puppeteers who perform there have a distinguished history.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.