A hidey-hole sandwiched between cellphone, DVD, and jewelry stores features Tibetan delights.

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

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

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

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

Take in a rare, face-to-face glimpse of Lady Liberty at this tucked away Red Hook park.

Hiroshima survivor on Riverside Drive.

Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.

This once-grand marvel of engineering is now 41 miles of scenic hiking trail.

Waterway populated with abandoned projects, including a submarine.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

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

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

The first "Hall of Fame" in America was designed by legendary Gilded Age architect Stanford White for what was then the NYU uptown campus.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.