Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

An 1883 schoolhouse now home to collective of artists.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.

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

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

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

Queen Anne style apartment house built in 1886.

The return of something once considered a basic part of life.

Once a ferry dock, radio transmitter, and now a new Greenpoint park.

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

American artist J. Alden Weir purchased this 60-acre estate for $10 and a painting.

This urban oasis is a marvelous meld of music and landscape architecture.

A fantastic place to see murals, and an important location in the history of Toronto's legal street art scene.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

Captain America, Sub-Mariner, and the Human Torch were all born in this art deco Manhattan masterpiece.

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

A once-glowing grotto at the bottom of Waikapalae Wet Cave.

On the top floor of an upscale department store stands a lavish restaurant housed in a replica of a luxury French dining car.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.