Picturesque basketball courts sheltered by historical defensive walls and with an enviable sea view.

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

“Wagon Jobber" turned smokehouse magnate's family-owned business is still going strong 100 years later.

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

Love is in the air along the small street in Brooklyn.

The site where Joe Gallo kept his guns, pet lion, and launched an all out mob war in 1960s Brooklyn.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

The tennis legend used this racket while breaking the race barrier and becoming the first Black man to win the US Open.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

A reliquary of pop culture marvels, including the world's largest (and most terrifying) Jack-in-the-Box.

Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.

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

Once a ferry dock, radio transmitter, and now a new Greenpoint park.

The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.

Historic Greenpoint theater turned roller disco, then chain pharmacy, and now Sweetgreen.

Once called Winthrop Park in 1889, home to a decidedly sexy tribute to the Monitor vs. Merrimac battle.

This nondescript coffee shop conceals one of the wildest patisseries in New York City.

Neoclassical bank designed by NY architects Helmle & Huberty.

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

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

The last slot car racing arcade in Brooklyn is keeping the dream of speedy little autos alive.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.