A working monastery hidden away in Brooklyn once abutted the location of a former inebriate's home.

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

On the hills of Bay Ridge stands a house straight out of a fairy tale.

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

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.

The site where Joe Gallo kept his guns, pet lion, and launched an all out mob war in 1960s Brooklyn.

Fabrication workshop where the encasement for One World Trade Center's beacon was constructed.

A retired oil tanker now offering amazing views of New York City.

A cruise terminal that changes the atmosphere of Red Hook's industrial waterfront.

An unconventional space for art and science housed in a massive old warehouse.

An experimental, community court opened in 2000 takes a new approach to youth offenders in south Brooklyn.

What’s a sure fire way to end up in jail in New York in the 1920s? Peddling bad moonshine.

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

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.

Where infamous mobster and leader of Murder Inc. Albert Anastasia made his home.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

The engineering feat of the Panama Canal was possible in small part thanks to materials developed in this humble Red Hook foundry.

One of the largest public housing complexes in New York once visited by Eleanor Roosevelt.

School named after its beloved principal, killed in the cross-fire of a drug related shooting.

Come for the sustainable organic chocolate, stay for the sustainable organic booze.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

Brooklyn vintners creating world-class wine in a city not known for its vineyards.

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.