Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

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

Three stories above you, your salad is being grown.

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

A community farm in the midst of the Brooklyn concrete.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

A quiet and contemplative oasis in the middle of New York's bustle and riot.

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

A band of aerialists and circus performers putting on incredible shows in East Williamsburg.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

A staggering collection of photographs depicting medical, social, and historical change.