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

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

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

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

This striking arch, one of the first architectural elements constructed in Prospect Park, was recently restored to its original glory.

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

The site of a fallen tree that protected Americans from British forces during the American Revolution.

One of the remaining markers of an era when Brooklyn and Flatbush were separate cities.

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

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

This elaborate tunnel is the first structure composed of cast concrete in the United States.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

The impeccably spiced roast pork buns at this bakery are worth the wait.

Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".