One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

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

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

Amid skyscrapers and traffic exists this unique aquatic ecosystem.

An institution dedicated to the towering buildings that make up skylines in New York City and around the world.

The only subway station in the city that still makes use of gap fillers.

A touching tribute to the "Queen of Soul."

An aptly-named street near the birthplace of the modern LGBT rights movement.

How a century-old glass factory in Queens became a concert venue and arts center.

This diesel train serviced the Brooklyn waterfront for more than three decades.

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

Once a flowing stream and where the USS Monitor, the world's first ironclad, was built and launched.

Where the Monitor was launched and ushered in the age of the "ironclads."

A 120-year oil leak slowly unleashes more gallons of oil than the Exxon/Mobil disaster.

Once called Winthrop Park in 1889, home to a decidedly sexy tribute to the Monitor vs. Merrimac battle.

Known as the "Forgotten City" it was home to industry, riots, artists, squatters, and to one of the largest single disaster fires in New York City.

Feral cats keeping the rodent population at bay all across Greenpoint waterfront.

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

Enormous one time fiber mill now houses local artists and small businesses.

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

Guerilla gardeners reclaimed this abandoned railroad land literally putting down roots.

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

An art installation commemorates journalist Nellie Bly's undercover reporting inside a New York asylum.