The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

Ornate "Renaissance Revival" style building.

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

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

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

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

Oldest surviving example of a Dutch saltbox frame house in America.

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

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

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

Waterway populated with abandoned projects, including a submarine.

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

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

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.