While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

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

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

Steam out your ears for New Year's Eve.

Haven for steampunks.

This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

An illegally built ramshackle mansion tucked in the middle of Brooklyn is now being turned into condominiums.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

This Polish cave has housed a dragon, a brothel, and an enduring legend.

Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.

Modern art commemorates one of the first military actions of World War II.

A huge wooden clock that is so beautiful its creator was forcibly blinded.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

Sweden's oldest animated sign is still lighting up the skyline today.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.