Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

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.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

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

This impressive mansion in Vinegar Hill has some mysterious details in its architecture.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

2 square block factory in Greenpoint erected in 1936.

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

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

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

The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.

Neoclassical bank designed by NY architects Helmle & Huberty.

Where Greenpoint's first European settler—and troublemaker—made his home.

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