The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”

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

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

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

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

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

Once home to the country's most gargantuan ships, this graving dock now waits for people to buy furniture.

Thomas Edison's home and final resting place also boasts an impressive garage, where some of the earliest electric cars are on display.

Take a step into the workshop where Edison and his employees revolutionized the world.

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

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.

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

A surprising museum of 20th-century technology.

Featuring the the longest lift span of any vertical-lift bridge in the world.

The mysterious canine hides atop a drain pipe on the back of the building, some say as a sneaky shoutout to Yale.

Seven people are buried in the middle of what's now a movie theater parking lot.

Rusting away on the edge of New Jersey are the remains of a Cold War missile launch site.

These unassuming lighthouses have seen the first reading of the Pledge of Allegiance, the first wireless transmission, and more than one mystery.

The real-life ‘Severance’ office building.

One of New Jersey's oldest churches is a historical treasure trove.