A community farm in the midst of the Brooklyn concrete.

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

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.

Lehigh Valley barge No. 79 still gets tugged along - but now it houses a museum and unusual performances.

“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.

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

The humble fort that saved Washington.

The factory that helped produce a dominant form of lighting before Thomas Edison.

A cruise terminal that changes the atmosphere of Red Hook's industrial waterfront.

An unconventional space for art and science housed in a massive old warehouse.

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

The mass grave of a heroic Revolutionary War regiment sits below an empty lot near the Gowanus Canal.

Romans decided this 16th-century "talking statue" was so ugly, they named it after a primate.

This memorial museum chronicles the apocalyptic destruction of the First World War.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

Half of a house.

Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

Home of modern dancer famously strangled by her own scarf.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.