Here be dragons.

Hidden behind a gate in Greenwich Village is a little farmhouse that once served as the writing studio of a bestselling author.

The flagship building of an early national restaurant chain is a superb example of terra cotta art.

As telephones become more essential and less stylish one historic Brooklyn building remembers the days when they were a grand celebration of communication.

Residents of this Brooklyn neighborhood may be unaware their houses sit atop a buried trolley graveyard.

Twenty-three trees, each paired with a basalt stone, line a street in Chelsea, continuing an urban project started by German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys.

For 20 years, local pumpkins have met their fate on the iron fence surrounding this Cobble Hill home.

Once a dumping spot, now a park with a kayak launch.

A mysterious statue of a leather jacket-clad rebel leans coolly on an odd yellow clock.

One-time largest man-made structure in the world will be a park in 30 years.

This family-owned bakery is one of the last places in Brooklyn to sell the Nation of Islam–inspired bean pie.

You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.

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

This old estate is a remnant of when the Bronx was a popular summer destination for wealthy New Yorkers.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

The humble fort that saved Washington.

One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

This slender three-story building has also had several famous residents.

Once a month, an Indonesian feast appears inside an Elmhurst church hall.

Shop while you wait for a table in this tiny Indonesian eatery within a mini-mart.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

This nearly invisible wire transforms much of the city into one big, symbolic home on the holy day.

Three stories above you, your salad is being grown.