Places alaskanmoss Wants to Go

One of the largest public housing complexes in New York once visited by Eleanor Roosevelt.

One of the remaining markers of an era when Brooklyn and Flatbush were separate cities.

Though the case is scorched and the buttons half-melted, this hardy handheld gaming device can still run a game of Tetris.

Home to first responders to Greenpoint's devastating oil fires.

The only gallery in New York dedicated to olfactory art and the exploration of scent in art.

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

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

An experimental, community court opened in 2000 takes a new approach to youth offenders in south Brooklyn.

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

This unusual apartment building may be Brooklyn's own version of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

If it hadn't been caught in time, a flaw in the design of this Manhattan skyscraper could have led to its collapse.

The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.

This miniature village stays behind in the Breuer Building, even as the museums around it come and go.

After surviving abandonment, this powerful Latin American mural is alive again.

Where one of Greenpoint's "five black arts" was practiced.

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

Fake subway tiles were installed to cover a design that resembled the Confederate flag—it's unclear if the resemblance was intentional.

The rare American Civil War-era weapon was never fired in anger.

A riverfront park that both remediated and preserved its industrial past.

The one-time office of the architectural firm that ushered in the Gilded Age is now a Club Monaco.

The return of something once considered a basic part of life.

Queen Anne style apartment house built in 1886.

The most radioactive spot in New York City can also fix your muffler.

The childhood home of one of America's greatest unsung troubadours still stands in a much changed Brooklyn neighborhood.