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

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

Con Edison’s exotic and heat-loving pests.

The Underground Railroad passed right through this historic Brooklyn Heights church.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

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

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

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

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

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

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

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

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.