What’s a sure fire way to end up in jail in New York in the 1920s? Peddling bad moonshine.

An unconventional space for art and science housed in a massive old warehouse.

A cruise terminal that changes the atmosphere of Red Hook's industrial waterfront.

Where infamous mobster and leader of Murder Inc. Albert Anastasia made his home.

School named after its beloved principal, killed in the cross-fire of a drug related shooting.

One of the largest public housing complexes in New York once visited by Eleanor Roosevelt.

The humble fort that saved Washington.

The factory that helped produce a dominant form of lighting before Thomas Edison.

A community farm in the midst of the Brooklyn concrete.

The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”

Red Hook's massive public pool, built by Robert Moses.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

Known as the leaning temple, the sacred structure has somehow developed a severe nine-degree slant.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

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

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

A replica of a 7th-century church hides in plain sight in the middle of the concrete jungle.

A small part of lower Manhattan is actually made from a bit of England.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Three stories above you, your salad is being grown.

HBO series' stage tucked away in a Greenpoint lot is the largest theatrical set of its kind in the United States.