One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

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

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

A graffiti Mecca welcoming artists from around the world.

The legendary court where emerging basketball players gain their street cred.

This Upper East Side apartment co-op was designed as a tuberculosis sanitarium.

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

Depression-era fun lives on in this Harlem museum dedicated to the sport of the street.

At this hidden studio, the dying art of taxidermy is alive and well.

Nondescript building owned by ExxonMobil working on siphoning Greenpoint Oil Spill out of the ground.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

A 9-story, poured concrete structure which was used as a glue factory with an indelible smell.

In 1986, Keith Haring was arrested for painting this anti-drug mural on a Harlem handball court.

A 120-year oil leak slowly unleashes more gallons of oil than the Exxon/Mobil disaster.

A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.

The best B-movies filmed on a shoestring budget were born here.

Final resting place of Typhoid Mary.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

A band of aerialists and circus performers putting on incredible shows in East Williamsburg.

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

This outdoor gallery of sculptures along the East River was once a landfill.

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