The Underground Railroad passed right through this historic Brooklyn Heights church.

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

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

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

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

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

Now the site of a high school, this was almost the location of the largest cathedral in the US.

An illegally built ramshackle mansion tucked in the middle of Brooklyn is now being turned into condominiums.

A community theatre in Brooklyn that brings Country to New York and New York to Country.

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

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

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

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

Risk arrest while partying to fund art.

A working metal shop and venue for outrageous art and music shows in a former cannonball factory.

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.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

One of the deadliest American air disasters is nearly forgotten in Brooklyn.

This neo-Gothic former auto showroom is one of the few remaining reminders of Brooklyn's "Automobile Row."

This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.