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

The longest step street in the city.

A touching tribute to the "Queen of Soul."

Snack on a partially gestated duck egg.

Love is in the air along the small street in Brooklyn.

Dedicated to preserving the history of free Black communities in Brooklyn and beyond.

Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

This family-owned bakery is one of the last places in Brooklyn to sell the Nation of Islam–inspired bean pie.

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

This slender three-story building has also had several famous residents.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

This majestic building, where Brazil's coffee brokers once bought and sold beans, now houses a coffee museum.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

Commemorating a battle where French troops were commanded by an Englishman, and English troops by a Frenchman.

The city of Parma's cathedral is home to one of the greatest illusionistic frescoes of the Renaissance.

An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.

An open-air sewer system that was covered piece-by-piece over 300 years.