Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

A former connection to City Island, it has been abandoned since the 1930s.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

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

A massive forgotten storehouse from 1913 on the Brooklyn Waterfront has a spectacular view of Brooklyn.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

This abandoned caretaker's apartment is one of 13 left in the New York Public Library system.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

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

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.

The iconic Manhattan corner that was once the site of the Beastie Boys' fake clothing store.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

Those belting out show tunes might not realize this piano bar marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.