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

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

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

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

The last slot car racing arcade in Brooklyn is keeping the dream of speedy little autos alive.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

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

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

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

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

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

Got apples?

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.