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

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.

The site where Joe Gallo kept his guns, pet lion, and launched an all out mob war in 1960s Brooklyn.

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

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

Retribution for death of infamous mob boss Franie Yale was a case of mistaken identity.

This neo-Gothic former auto showroom is one of the few remaining reminders of Brooklyn's "Automobile Row."

For 20 years, local pumpkins have met their fate on the iron fence surrounding this Cobble Hill home.

The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.

On the hills of Bay Ridge stands a house straight out of a fairy tale.

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.

A mysterious, abandoned building rotting on the Brooklyn waterfront.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

A band of aerialists and circus performers putting on incredible shows in East Williamsburg.

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

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."