The artist and New York City icon lived, worked and died in this converted carriage house owned by another iconic artist, Andy Warhol.

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

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

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

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

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

Established in 1937, the oldest candy shop in New York City boasts a rainbow-colored inventory that would make Willy Wonka envious.

The last remnants of what was once one of the world's grandest hotels can now be found in a Manhattan subway station.

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

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

This Russian bar-restaurant lies within a three-story underground bathhouse.

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.

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

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

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