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

Where one of Greenpoint's "five black arts" was practiced.

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

Built as a home for the Union Porcelain magnate in 1867, now the Greenpoint Reformed Church and home to a ceramic mystery.

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

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

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

A big museum full of little worlds.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

This ruined fort hidden at the top of Central Park can't seem to keep from losing its historical plaques.

This nearly invisible wire transforms much of the city into one big, symbolic home on the holy day.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

The last living thing to come out of the rubble after 9/11 is now a symbol of hope and resilience.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?