A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

Where the four original members of the Ramones hung out and revolutionized punk rock.

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

Guerilla gardeners reclaimed this abandoned railroad land literally putting down roots.

Retribution for death of infamous mob boss Franie Yale was a case of mistaken identity.

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

This Bronx apartment building is officially recognized as the birthplace of hip-hop.

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

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

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

A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.

Storage warehouse of the rich and famous.

Legendary private island in the Bronx...devoid of rats.

From this desk Al Hirschfeld drew his influential caricatures of the 20th century's Broadway stars.

Final resting place of Typhoid Mary.

At this hidden studio, the dying art of taxidermy is alive and well.

The home of one of America's most beloved fictional characters has become a real world landmark.

Built just after the American Revolution, the oldest row house in New York City still stands in Chinatown.

A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.

Nope, not Washington Irving's house.

The humble fort that saved Washington.

The site where Joe Gallo kept his guns, pet lion, and launched an all out mob war in 1960s Brooklyn.

One-time largest man-made structure in the world will be a park in 30 years.

A world of whimsy and wonder aboard a one of a kind historic landmark vessel.