Once a flowing stream and where the USS Monitor, the world's first ironclad, was built and launched.

This unique house, the only one of its kind in Brooklyn, was built as part of a real estate developer's showcase.

This unusual apartment building may be Brooklyn's own version of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Now owned by the National Park Service, this location was once home to illegal boxing matches.

This suburban enclave is home to a very unique art exhibit.

Ornate "Renaissance Revival" style building.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

Dine on old-school red sauce fare at a former mob hang out and film set for The Sopranos.

Nondescript building owned by ExxonMobil working on siphoning Greenpoint Oil Spill out of the ground.

One of the remaining markers of an era when Brooklyn and Flatbush were separate cities.

Queen Anne style apartment house built in 1886.

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

This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.

Headquarters of the world's fourth largest Hasidic sect and the first of many "770s" around the world.

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

A century-old magnolia tree is the only living landmark tree in New York City.

This impressive mansion in Vinegar Hill has some mysterious details in its architecture.

A working monastery hidden away in Brooklyn once abutted the location of a former inebriate's home.

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 heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.

This micro-industry of Latino cuisine along Red Hook's Ball Fields represents a victory in a food fight with the city.

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

Oldest surviving example of a Dutch saltbox frame house in America.

Brooklyn vintners creating world-class wine in a city not known for its vineyards.