Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

Collection dedicated to funeral rites, equipment, and mourning rituals of the Viennese.

A Red Hook dive bar that is holding onto its roots.

An illegally built ramshackle mansion tucked in the middle of Brooklyn is now being turned into condominiums.

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

A huge resale shop for the cast-offs of the film & television industry.

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.

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

A community theatre in Brooklyn that brings Country to New York and New York to Country.

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

New York's oldest concrete structure is being preserved thanks to the gentrification of Whole Foods.

Two monstrous warehouses. One now holds priceless works of art, the other stands abandoned and dilapidated.

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

Historic Greenpoint theater, turned roller disco, now housing a chain pharmacy store.

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

Take in a rare, face-to-face glimpse of Lady Liberty at this tucked away Red Hook park.