The unassuming structure was part of a Major League Baseball stadium.

New York's oldest concrete structure is being preserved thanks to the gentrification of Whole Foods.

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

Behind a grungy bodega facade, a Poblano family serves rich, home-cooked meals.

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

The best B-movies filmed on a shoestring budget were born here.

Some of New York's best tacos can be found in the back of an unassuming bodega in Queens.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.

Once considered a marvel of engineering, this 107-mile canal played an integral role in building New York City.

This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.

Walk over a 150 year old manhole.

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

A bronze plaque at an intersection in Hoboken marks the place where the game of baseball first took shape.

The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head after a deadly duel can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.

A commemorative plaque hides a door that leads down to the New York Public Library's underground book bunker.

A cargo of beautiful music.

An experimental, community court opened in 2000 takes a new approach to youth offenders in south Brooklyn.

One of the largest public housing complexes in New York once visited by Eleanor Roosevelt.

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

Red Hook's massive public pool, built by Robert Moses.

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

A community farm in the midst of the Brooklyn concrete.

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