A historic lighthouse steeped in rumors of ghost and pirate stories.

Once a ferry dock, radio transmitter, and now a new Greenpoint park.

Snack on a partially gestated duck egg.

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

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.

Historic Greenpoint theater, turned roller disco, now housing a chain pharmacy store.

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

This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

The most confusing clock in New York.

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.