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.

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

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

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

This 19th century brick building in Brooklyn stands out like the anachronistic landmark that it is.

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

Con Edison’s exotic and heat-loving pests.

Known as the "Forgotten City" it was home to industry, riots, artists, squatters, and to one of the largest single disaster fires in New York City.

A cargo of beautiful music.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

Waterway populated with abandoned projects, including a submarine.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

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

A no-frills cinephile haven known for showing offbeat, underseen films.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

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

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.