This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

Neoclassical bank designed by NY architects Helmle & Huberty.

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

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

If you were standing here on October 5th, 1950, you'd be dead.

The return of something once considered a basic part of life.

Once a ferry dock, radio transmitter, and now a new Greenpoint park.

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.

Ornate "Renaissance Revival" style building.

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

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

The childhood home of one of America's greatest unsung troubadours still stands in a much changed Brooklyn neighborhood.

An arcade packed with a rotating collection of unique independent video games.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

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

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.

This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.

The most radioactive spot in New York City can also fix your muffler.

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

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

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.