Built as a home for the Union Porcelain magnate in 1867, now the Greenpoint Reformed Church and home to a ceramic mystery.

If you were standing here on October 5th, 1950, you'd be dead.

An unassuming stone building houses New York City's oldest seismic station almost 30 feet below the Bronx.

This outdoor gallery of sculptures along the East River was once a landfill.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

Once a dumping spot, now a park with a kayak launch.

This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.

A temple belonging to the largest Buddhist order in South Korea nestled in the middle of New York City.

This impressive mansion in Vinegar Hill has some mysterious details in its architecture.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

For 20 years, local pumpkins have met their fate on the iron fence surrounding this Cobble Hill home.

A mysterious statue of a leather jacket-clad rebel leans coolly on an odd yellow clock.

2,000 barrels of aging beer hidden in a warehouse at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

Love is in the air along the small street in Brooklyn.

A working monastery hidden away in Brooklyn once abutted the location of a former inebriate's home.

Small monoliths of several varieties of stone sit alongside a wooded path in the Bronx.

A monument stands to the famous suffragist who penned the declaration for women's equal rights, including the right to vote.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

This striking arch, one of the first architectural elements constructed in Prospect Park, was recently restored to its original glory.

A memorial to the first person killed by a motor vehicle in the Western Hemisphere.

Hidden behind a gate in Greenwich Village is a little farmhouse that once served as the writing studio of a bestselling author.

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

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