Ornate "Renaissance Revival" style building.

This micro-industry of Latino cuisine along Red Hook's Ball Fields represents a victory in a food fight with the city.

New York's oldest concrete structure is being preserved thanks to the gentrification of Whole Foods.

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

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

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

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.”

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

Waterway populated with abandoned projects, including a submarine.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

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

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

In the middle of downtown Brooklyn lies a 165 year old secret hidden right below the surface (closed to the public indefinitely).

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

Red frames showcase remnants of one of New York's original subway stations.

The origins of midtown Manhattan's anachronistic wooden farmhouse remain a mystery.

A museum collection honoring the long history of the FDNY is held in a disused Manhattan fire house.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.