An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

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

Waterway populated with abandoned projects, including a submarine.

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

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

Abandoned 19th century homes once occupied by naval officers, soon to be demolished.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

Red frames showcase remnants of one of New York's original subway stations.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

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.

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

The mass grave of a heroic Revolutionary War regiment sits below an empty lot near the Gowanus Canal.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

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

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

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

Two monstrous warehouses. One now holds priceless works of art, the other stands abandoned and dilapidated.