One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

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

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

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

An Irish Memorial commemorating those who perished due to potato blight.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Yo, Adrian!

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

America's Most Wanted's set resides in this tribute to the history of crime and punishment.