Nature in Brooklyn

What was once a vast naval cemetery is now home to nesting birds and pollinating bees.

Now owned by the National Park Service, this location was once home to illegal boxing matches.

This preserved wilderness hides the remains of a colonial grain mill used to feed George Washington's troops.

The humble fort that saved Washington.

Take in a rare, face-to-face glimpse of Lady Liberty at this tucked away Red Hook park.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

What’s a sure fire way to end up in jail in New York in the 1920s? Peddling bad moonshine.

Compensation for the destruction of a historic shipyard.

The engineering feat of the Panama Canal was possible in small part thanks to materials developed in this humble Red Hook foundry.

Two monstrous warehouses. One now holds priceless works of art, the other stands abandoned and dilapidated.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.

School named after its beloved principal, killed in the cross-fire of a drug related shooting.

Once a flowing stream and where the USS Monitor, the world's first ironclad, was built and launched.