A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

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

The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

This former water source for the City of Brooklyn is now a thriving natural wetland.

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

The oldest pastificio in Queens offers visitors fresh noodles and a peek inside the macaroni-making magic.

This Orthodox Church's exterior is rather unorthodox.

A former seaside jewel built for the everyman is now simply a neglected art deco fortress.

This Queens beer hall preserves a German culture and language that is all but lost.

The Vatican of the movie industry turned into an actual church.

A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.

The Harlem Renaissance poet and activist wrote, organized, and hosted travelers in this Lynchburg, Virginia oasis.

This eye-catching sculpture of rural life seems a bit out of place at a suburban intersection in front of a car dealership.

This unique structure is the only one of its kind in Virginia.

The most historic church in Fairfax County played a role in the creation of the American Red Cross.

Where pardoned turkeys once spent their all-too-brief final days.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.