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This former POW camp was transformed into a Cold War missile installation.

Townhouse facade doubles as an RMS Titanic Memorial.

The Father of the Erie Canal has a magnificent grave marker that redefines the term "final resting place."

After traveling the world, one of the last remaining fully-rigged three masted iron-hulled cargo ship in the world found its home in New York.

The final resting place of a former Dodgers and Mets player can be found in central Brooklyn, in the first diocesan cemetery for Catholics in the borough.

This diesel train serviced the Brooklyn waterfront for more than three decades.

Where the Monitor was launched and ushered in the age of the "ironclads."

The real "father of baseball" rests in Brooklyn.

The home of former Heavyweight Boxing Champion, "Gentleman Jim" Corbett.

The only subway station in the city that still makes use of gap fillers.

What was once a vast naval cemetery is now home to nesting birds and pollinating bees.

An homage to Jackie Gleason's bus-driving character from 'The Honeymooners.'

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

The rare American Civil War-era weapon was never fired in anger.

The ballpark in "Pigtown" where the Brooklyn Dodgers made their name was replaced with a huge apartment complex.

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

If you were standing here on October 5th, 1950, you'd be dead.

A touching tribute to the "Queen of Soul."

This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.

Nine nice parcels of land along a flight path offer a quiet respite... until a plane soars overhead.

A remnant of the original World Trade Center complex continues to serve as a commuter gateway.

Devotional offerings and pleas for intercession are left at this Depression-era shrine inside a nature preserve.

An art installation commemorates journalist Nellie Bly's undercover reporting inside a New York asylum.

An institution dedicated to the towering buildings that make up skylines in New York City and around the world.