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This neighborhood grocery houses a treasure trove of Eastern European delights.

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

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

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

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

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.

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

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

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

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

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

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

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

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

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

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.