Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

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

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

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

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.

Off of the Crawfordville Highway in Florida, nature is taking back this decrepit row of Ford trucks.

This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.

Of course the guy with the first patent for an ice machine lived in Florida.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

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

A hidden architectural treasure in New York's Brooklyn.

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

Now the site of a high school, this was almost the location of the largest cathedral in the US.

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

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

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

Haven for steampunks.