Once called Winthrop Park in 1889, home to a decidedly sexy tribute to the Monitor vs. Merrimac battle.

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

Enormous one time fiber mill now houses local artists and small businesses.

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

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

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

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

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

Once a dumping spot, now a park with a kayak launch.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

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.

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

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.

Three stories above you, your salad is being grown.

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.

“Wagon Jobber" turned smokehouse magnate's family-owned business is still going strong 100 years later.

This translucent sculpture represents a quintessential component of New York City's skyline.

HBO series' stage tucked away in a Greenpoint lot is the largest theatrical set of its kind in the United States.

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.