Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

Built as a home for the Union Porcelain magnate in 1867, now the Greenpoint Reformed Church and home to a ceramic mystery.

Where the Monitor was launched and ushered in the age of the "ironclads."

The only remaining Jewish congregation in Greenpoint.

Historic Greenpoint theater, turned roller disco, now housing a chain pharmacy store.

Home to first responders to Greenpoint's devastating oil fires.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

A replica of where the Last Supper was held.

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

If you were standing here on October 5th, 1950, you'd be dead.

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

This sculptural piece by the artist Tom Otterness doubles as a jungle gym.

This diesel train serviced the Brooklyn waterfront for more than three decades.

This nostalgic blast from the grooming past is also a working barbershop.

The former sign of this immortal music venue is just that--undying.

Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.