The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

A gorgeous gem on the ocean.

The cutest shrine in Kyoto is dedicated to bunnies.

One of Kyoto's oldest food establishments has supplied soba noodles to temple priests and the Imperial Palace.

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

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

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

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

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.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

Sunset Park's Guatemalan community knows to head to the back of this bodega for a taste of home.

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

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

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

One of the deadliest American air disasters is nearly forgotten in Brooklyn.

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.

This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.

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

The humble fort that saved Washington.