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

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

See wolves, coyotes, and arctic foxes in a natural environment smack in the middle of New York State.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.

Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.

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

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

This once sprawling resort now sits abandoned, filled with graffiti and vibrant colors from an era long passed.

This locally-famous crevasse in New York State is icy all year round.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.

Eclectic architecture in the woods of New York.

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

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

A 19th century hat factory still stands as a crumbling ruin in upstate New York.

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

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

An abandoned 19th century quarry in the middle of the woods, remade by unnamed wanderers into a massive series of rock thrones.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.