An interesting look into 18th-century American history.

The ballpark in "Pigtown" where the Brooklyn Dodgers made their name was replaced with a huge apartment complex.

Slurp sesame noodles at the third-generation family-run establishment that invented them.

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

Of all the unique artifacts inside this library, a mummified hand stands out among the others.

Staten Island's original central park is the former home of the city water supply as well as thousands of immigrant graves.

Cooks at this tiny takeout spot grind their rice flour in a stone mill each morning for perfect cheung fun.

This vessel is believed to be the oldest operating fireboat in the world.

Opened in 1947, this is the oldest continuously-operating drive-in theater in New York.

A retired oil tanker now offering amazing views of New York City.

All that remains of one of the Civil War's more deadly POW camps is a simple flagstone.

Learn about the last river many crossed to find freedom from slavery in the United States.

Devotional offerings and pleas for intercession are left at this Depression-era shrine inside a nature preserve.

A historic lighthouse steeped in rumors of ghost and pirate stories.

This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.

Before online banking and smartphone apps, there was "commuter banking" in the subway in Downtown Brooklyn.

The impeccably spiced roast pork buns at this bakery are worth the wait.

The only remaining building in New York to see the inauguration of a president is being slowly overtaken by a grocery store.

Currently housing a corporate bank branch this building at the southern tip of Manhattan was once the gateway to luxury vacationing.

Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.

This Frank Lloyd Wright summer house was designed along Lake Erie as a retreat for a client's wife.

Residents of this Brooklyn neighborhood may be unaware their houses sit atop a buried trolley graveyard.

Depression-era fun lives on in this Harlem museum dedicated to the sport of the street.

The flagship building of an early national restaurant chain is a superb example of terra cotta art.