In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

A cargo of beautiful music.

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

Before online banking and smartphone apps, there was "commuter banking" in the subway in Downtown Brooklyn.

For 20 years, local pumpkins have met their fate on the iron fence surrounding this Cobble Hill home.

The Dover International Speedway is home to a towering, concrete-skinned, racecar-hungry behemoth.

The rusting remains are visible sticking out of the waters of the Delaware Bay.

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

A proud bronze billy stands as an eternal symbol of Ireland's oldest festival, where a goat is made king.

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

An unconventional space for art and science housed in a massive old warehouse.

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.

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.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

Blitzkrieg bop your way through Berlin's Ramones Museum.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.