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

The Underground Railroad passed right through this historic Brooklyn Heights church.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

A cargo of beautiful music.

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

Waterway populated with abandoned projects, including a submarine.

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

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

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.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

A graffiti Mecca welcoming artists from around the world.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

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

These chunky stone towers out in Lake Michigan are the key to Chicago’s drinking water.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

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