Places chapmanpaulsteven Wants to Go

A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.

The site of a fallen tree that protected Americans from British forces during the American Revolution.

A massive forgotten storehouse from 1913 on the Brooklyn Waterfront has a spectacular view of Brooklyn.

This eclectic sculpture garden in Brooklyn, home to a bizarre collection of art, was once a run-down junkyard.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

This impressive mansion in Vinegar Hill has some mysterious details in its architecture.

This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

The Underground Railroad passed right through this historic Brooklyn Heights church.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

As telephones become more essential and less stylish one historic Brooklyn building remembers the days when they were a grand celebration of communication.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

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

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

This controversial statue has migrated twice in its life.

This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

Here be dragons.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

An unconventional space for art and science housed in a massive old warehouse.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.