The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.

Once a dumping spot, now a park with a kayak launch.

A group dedicated to promoting boating, kayaking and environmental education programs.

HBO series' stage tucked away in a Greenpoint lot is the largest theatrical set of its kind in the United States.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

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

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

If you were standing here on October 5th, 1950, you'd be dead.

Neoclassical bank designed by NY architects Helmle & Huberty.

2 square block factory in Greenpoint erected in 1936.

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

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

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

This giant satellite antenna services the transmission needs of government agencies and cable programmers.

The first dish to bounce radio signals off the Moon, it was the forerunner to the U.S. Space Program.

The original Garfield station is the oldest station facility on the "L", with the station house dating from 1892.

This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

The 606 is a decade in the making.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.