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

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

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

Known as the "Forgotten City" it was home to industry, riots, artists, squatters, and to one of the largest single disaster fires in New York City.

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

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

Con Edison’s exotic and heat-loving pests.

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

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

One of the few Glatt kosher delis in the United States is a cornerstone of its Hasidic neighborhood.

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

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

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

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

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

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.