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

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.

This 19th century brick building in Brooklyn stands out like the anachronistic landmark that it is.

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.

A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.

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

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.

A mysterious, abandoned building rotting on the Brooklyn waterfront.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

A hidden architectural treasure in New York's Brooklyn.

The mass grave of a heroic Revolutionary War regiment sits below an empty lot near the Gowanus Canal.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."