Ornate "Renaissance Revival" style building.

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.

Where the Monitor was launched and ushered in the age of the "ironclads."

Where Greenpoint's first European settler—and troublemaker—made his home.

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

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

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

The return of something once considered a basic part of life.

Once a ferry dock, radio transmitter, and now a new Greenpoint park.

Once a flowing stream and where the USS Monitor, the world's first ironclad, was built and launched.

This sandstone gorge in New York State's Adirondack Mountains is home to waterfalls, flumes, and more.

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.