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

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

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

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

A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

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

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.

The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.

2,000 barrels of aging beer hidden in a warehouse at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

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

Spike Lee's provocative film is officially honored right where it was made, the first time a work of art was used as a secondary street name.

Centuries of biking history are nestled in the shadow of the birthplace of contemporary mountain biking.

One of the last remaining Carpenter Gothic churches is situated on a wildflower conservatory overlooking the bay.

At night, a grove of towering redwood trees growing through the pavement block out all light from the so-called “Dark Park” of Madrone Avenue.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

These murals celebrate the oft-overlooked legacies of Iraqi-Jewish actresses in Bollywood.

The ruins of a medieval citadel believed to be haunted by a ministry of wish-granting djinns.

Visit a haunted Mughal mosque and the tomb of a Sufi saint and his disciple.

A startling, centuries-old subterranean marvel hides in plain sight.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

Austin’s local mountain isn’t really a mountain at all.