A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.

This small, but long-running hobby club has built one of the largest model rail lines in the US.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

In a quiet north Chicago neighborhood rests a stunning relic of the golden age of earthenware design.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

The 606 is a decade in the making.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.

The highest rapid transit station in the world.

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

This elaborate tunnel is the first structure composed of cast concrete in the United States.

Nearly four centuries after its founding, remnants of one of the oldest planned communities in North America are still visible in southern Brooklyn.

Once called Winthrop Park in 1889, home to a decidedly sexy tribute to the Monitor vs. Merrimac battle.

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

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.

Enter the deli, walk until you hit the taxidermy, then order some hot, homey guisado.

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

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

Sunset Park's Guatemalan community knows to head to the back of this bodega for a taste of home.

This micro-industry of Latino cuisine along Red Hook's Ball Fields represents a victory in a food fight with the city.

A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.

The cuisine at this Sheepshead Bay spot tells the story of a displaced Muslim Chinese community.

One of the few Glatt kosher delis in the United States is a cornerstone of its Hasidic neighborhood.