Dine on old-school red sauce fare at a former mob hang out and film set for The Sopranos.

The highest rapid transit station in the world.

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

The inventor of the Coney Island hot dog rests in a grand mausoleum in Brooklyn.

This neo-Gothic former auto showroom is one of the few remaining reminders of Brooklyn's "Automobile Row."

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

This recipe is set in stone.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

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

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

The site where a nuclear bomb was lowered over 8,000 feet underground and detonated as an experiment in natural gas extraction.

This high-perched pachyderm marks the memory of not one, but two elephants gunned down in small New England towns.

This forlorn park is the result of a failed investment turned tax dodge.

The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.

Glacial erratic or man-made dolmen? It probably wasn't druids.

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

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.