Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

This nondescript coffee shop conceals one of the wildest patisseries in New York City.

What’s a sure fire way to end up in jail in New York in the 1920s? Peddling bad moonshine.

This suburban enclave is home to a very unique art exhibit.

Now owned by the National Park Service, this location was once home to illegal boxing matches.

As telephones become more essential and less stylish one historic Brooklyn building remembers the days when they were a grand celebration of communication.

This museum dedicated to the history of the medical bone trade and human osteology.

The inventor of the Coney Island hot dog rests in a grand mausoleum in Brooklyn.

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

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

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

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

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

The flagship building of an early national restaurant chain is a superb example of terra cotta art.

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

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.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.