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

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

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

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

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.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

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

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

The site where Joe Gallo kept his guns, pet lion, and launched an all out mob war in 1960s Brooklyn.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

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

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

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

The pioneering photographer's prints are immortalized inside her childhood home.

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