Micro-distillery in Brooklyn produces New York’s first homemade rum since Prohibition.

Compensation for the destruction of a historic shipyard.

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

A cruise terminal that changes the atmosphere of Red Hook's industrial waterfront.

Where infamous mobster and leader of Murder Inc. Albert Anastasia made his home.

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.

The humble fort that saved Washington.

Once home to the country's most gargantuan ships, this graving dock now waits for people to buy furniture.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

Rat sculptures try to infiltrate the Graybar Building in an architectural tribute to New York City's nautical history.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

The former sign of this immortal music venue is just that--undying.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

Cheap pizza and all of your naughty bedroom needs housed in a stunning example of Art Nouveau architecture.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

A forgotten relic from New York's bygone trolley system hides in plain sight under a bridge.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.