A graffiti Mecca welcoming artists from around the world.

This outdoor gallery of sculptures along the East River was once a landfill.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

A riverfront park that both remediated and preserved its industrial past.

This old estate is a remnant of when the Bronx was a popular summer destination for wealthy New Yorkers.

Rare moles meet activism at this Oaxacan eatery.

Red Hook's massive public pool, built by Robert Moses.

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

The rare American Civil War-era weapon was never fired in anger.

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

The highest rapid transit station in the world.

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

A community theatre in Brooklyn that brings Country to New York and New York to Country.

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

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

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

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

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

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

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

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.