Places James Ricci Wants to Go

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

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

Oldest surviving example of a Dutch saltbox frame house in America.

A Red Hook dive bar that is holding onto its roots.

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

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

Brooklyn's Barkaloo Cemetery is the resting place of a scant two bodies.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

A big shiny gin and whiskey distillery in Sunset Park.

One Brooklyn man's collection of life-size fiberglass statues has taken over his entire yard.

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

An abandoned subway tunnel that could have reinvigorated Staten Island still lies somewhere beneath this Brooklyn park.

Waterway populated with abandoned projects, including a submarine.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

A working metal shop and venue for outrageous art and music shows in a former cannonball factory.

Risk arrest while partying to fund art.

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

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

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

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”