One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

The highest point on the island known for buildings that touch the sky.

A large boulder marks the place where the island of Manhattan was purportedly "sold" to the Dutch.

A Gothic-style abode built to accommodate the church's three resident peacocks.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Hidden behind a gate in Greenwich Village is a little farmhouse that once served as the writing studio of a bestselling author.

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 popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

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.

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

This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.

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

Home to first responders to Greenpoint's devastating oil fires.

A 120-year oil leak slowly unleashes more gallons of oil than the Exxon/Mobil disaster.

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

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

The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.

“Wagon Jobber" turned smokehouse magnate's family-owned business is still going strong 100 years later.

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.

Ornate "Renaissance Revival" style building.

2 square block factory in Greenpoint erected in 1936.