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

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

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

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

Ornate "Renaissance Revival" style building.

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.

Queen Anne style apartment house built in 1886.

Feral cats keeping the rodent population at bay all across Greenpoint waterfront.

A group dedicated to promoting boating, kayaking and environmental education programs.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

A 9-story, poured concrete structure which was used as a glue factory with an indelible smell.

Home to first responders to Greenpoint's devastating oil fires.

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

A former seaside jewel built for the everyman is now simply a neglected art deco fortress.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

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

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

The oldest continuously operating farm in New York State.

A former poultry store that looks like a giant duck and is one of the "seven wonders" of Long Island.

The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.

The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.