A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.

Brooklyn vintners creating world-class wine in a city not known for its vineyards.

The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.

An 1883 schoolhouse now home to collective of artists.

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

The cuisine at this Sheepshead Bay spot tells the story of a displaced Muslim Chinese community.

Con Edison’s exotic and heat-loving pests.

A big shiny gin and whiskey distillery in Sunset Park.

Spike Lee's provocative film is officially honored right where it was made, the first time a work of art was used as a secondary street name.

Risk arrest while partying to fund art.

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

A mysterious, abandoned building rotting on the Brooklyn waterfront.

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

This recipe is set in stone.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

Micro-distillery in Brooklyn produces New York’s first homemade rum since Prohibition.

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

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

A one-ton statue of Steve Rogers beautifies the entry to a Brooklyn Bed, Bath & Beyond.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

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

An abandoned subway tunnel that could have reinvigorated Staten Island still lies somewhere beneath this Brooklyn park.

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