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.

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

An 1883 schoolhouse now home to collective of artists.

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.

Brooklyn's Barkaloo Cemetery is the resting place of a scant two bodies.

The Underground Railroad passed right through this historic Brooklyn Heights church.

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.

Historic Greenpoint theater, turned roller disco, now housing a chain pharmacy store.

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

An abandoned subway tunnel that could have reinvigorated Staten Island still lies somewhere beneath this Brooklyn park.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

Waterway populated with abandoned projects, including a submarine.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

A hidden architectural treasure in New York's Brooklyn.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

One Brooklyn man's collection of life-size fiberglass statues has taken over his entire yard.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

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

A working metal shop and venue for outrageous art and music shows in a former cannonball factory.