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A forsaken wonder in the middle of the East Side neighborhood.

A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.

Feral cats keeping the rodent population at bay all across Greenpoint waterfront.

Three acres of mythology-inspired sculptures are visible from the highway.

This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

A six-story treehouse offers spectacular views of New York's Finger Lakes region.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

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

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

One of the last full-orchestra recording studios in New York City and an acoustical marvel.

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

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

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

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

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

More than 250 sakes are available in an izakaya hidden in the basement of a Midtown office building.

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

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.