Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

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

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

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

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

A museum devoted to bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories through exhibitions, education and public programming.

After the famous composer died in Paris, his sister snuck his heart out of the country to honor his wish that it be buried in their native country.

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.