Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

Known locally as "the giant head," this 14-foot LED sculpture has a photo booth in the neck where you can have a 3D picture taken and displayed.

This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.

A huge resale shop for the cast-offs of the film & television industry.

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

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

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

This unusual subway stop was originally a real estate office.

New York's oldest concrete structure is being preserved thanks to the gentrification of Whole Foods.

Residents of this Brooklyn neighborhood may be unaware their houses sit atop a buried trolley graveyard.

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

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

A Collegiate Gothic quadrangle that surrounds an 18th century secondary school whose financing came from the likes of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, among others.

Sunset Park's Guatemalan community knows to head to the back of this bodega for a taste of home.

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

A cargo of beautiful music.

One of the few Glatt kosher delis in the United States is a cornerstone of its Hasidic neighborhood.

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.

A ruthless Soviet relocation campaign birthed a new cuisine, and this humble restaurant.

An 1883 schoolhouse now home to collective of artists.

This recipe is set in stone.

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.