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This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

The library of every book lover's dreams.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

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

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

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

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

Volunteer-run library dedicated to exploring five decades of activism history.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

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

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

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

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

The loneliest island in New York.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

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.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.