Micro-distillery in Brooklyn produces New York’s first homemade rum since Prohibition.

Volunteer-run library dedicated to exploring five decades of activism history.

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

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Where infamous mobster and leader of Murder Inc. Albert Anastasia made his home.

A massive forgotten storehouse from 1913 on the Brooklyn Waterfront has a spectacular view of Brooklyn.

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.

One of the largest public housing complexes in New York once visited by Eleanor Roosevelt.

School named after its beloved principal, killed in the cross-fire of a drug related shooting.

A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

This Delaware River bridge is emblazoned with a catty slogan from a more prosperous time.

A pride of the state, this working museum crafts pottery mosaics in the style of Pennsylvania's earliest European settlers.

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

The mysterious canine hides atop a drain pipe on the back of the building, some say as a sneaky shoutout to Yale.

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

The final resting place of many of New Jersey's most famous residents, including U.S. history's most in-vogue antagonist, Aaron Burr.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

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

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.