This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

A garment factory hides a small Dominican eatery in the hallway to its freight elevator.

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

New York's oldest magic store.

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

On the Hudson resides one of the largest clocks in the world.

Church in Manhattan holds the bloody sock of Padre Pio, among with many other unusual relics.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

Now the site of a high school, this was almost the location of the largest cathedral in the US.

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

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

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

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

The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

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

Nondescript building owned by ExxonMobil working on siphoning Greenpoint Oil Spill out of the ground.

A 9-story, poured concrete structure which was used as a glue factory with an indelible smell.

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

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

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

The only remaining Jewish congregation in Greenpoint.

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

The return of something once considered a basic part of life.