Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

The iconic Manhattan corner that was once the site of the Beastie Boys' fake clothing store.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

A big shiny gin and whiskey distillery in Sunset Park.

For 20 years, local pumpkins have met their fate on the iron fence surrounding this Cobble Hill home.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

Once a ferry dock, radio transmitter, and now a new Greenpoint park.

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

Ornate "Renaissance Revival" style building.

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

Once called Winthrop Park in 1889, home to a decidedly sexy tribute to the Monitor vs. Merrimac battle.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

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

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

The highest rapid transit station in the world.

A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

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

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

Abandoned 19th century homes once occupied by naval officers, soon to be demolished.

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.