Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

One of the last full-orchestra recording studios in New York City and an acoustical marvel.

A Hell's Kitchen synagogue that has counted stars of stage and screen among its congregation.

The best B-movies filmed on a shoestring budget were born here.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

What was once a vast naval cemetery is now home to nesting birds and pollinating bees.

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

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

At this hidden studio, the dying art of taxidermy is alive and well.

This museum dedicated to the history of the medical bone trade and human osteology.

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

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

Two monstrous warehouses. One now holds priceless works of art, the other stands abandoned and dilapidated.

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

For 20 years, local pumpkins have met their fate on the iron fence surrounding this Cobble Hill home.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

This railroad and oil tycoon's lavish estate now stands as a time capsule of the Gilded Age.