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

Steam out your ears for New Year's Eve.

Abandoned 19th century homes once occupied by naval officers, soon to be demolished.

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

This interactive gallery makes you feel like you've stepped into a fantasy world filled with whimsical monsters.

Behind a grungy bodega facade, a Poblano family serves rich, home-cooked meals.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.

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

New York's oldest concrete structure is being preserved thanks to the gentrification of Whole Foods.

The unassuming structure was part of a Major League Baseball stadium.

Possible relics of the ancient Roman city are hidden in this restaurant's façade.

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

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

Gang fights don't just happen on the streets, they happen under them too.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

This morbid scene depicts the Darwinian drama of death on the African savannah.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.

This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.