The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

The flagship building of an early national restaurant chain is a superb example of terra cotta art.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

Monument to a forgotten NYC disaster that claimed the lives of 1,000.

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

Down a stairway in the East Village, you could once read a plaque describing an alternate history of a fictional version of Manhattan.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.

The best way to get a sneak peek at the movies.

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

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

Built as a home for the Union Porcelain magnate in 1867, now the Greenpoint Reformed Church and home to a ceramic mystery.

Ornate "Renaissance Revival" style building.

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

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

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

Once a ferry dock, radio transmitter, and now a new Greenpoint park.

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.

One of the first major shipyards in Brooklyn.

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

Where Greenpoint's first European settler—and troublemaker—made his home.

Historic Greenpoint theater turned roller disco, then chain pharmacy, and now Sweetgreen.