When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.

With nickel-steel armor and three-inch thick bullet resistant windows, FDR's train was a rolling fortress.

In Cold Spring, New York, a shrine containing Godzilla and an assortment of plastic dinosaurs stands dedicated to a teenager who died in a car accident in 1996.

A historic 1890s architectural masterpiece with an iconic clock tower that, once open to the public, now faces an uncertain future.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.

One of the deadliest American air disasters is nearly forgotten in Brooklyn.

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

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

Nondescript building owned by ExxonMobil working on siphoning Greenpoint Oil Spill out of the ground.

If you were standing here on October 5th, 1950, you'd be dead.

Feral cats keeping the rodent population at bay all across Greenpoint waterfront.

The highest rapid transit station in the world.

A ruthless Soviet relocation campaign birthed a new cuisine, and this humble restaurant.

This neighborhood grocery houses a treasure trove of Eastern European delights.

The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.

The only National Monument ever to go missing for nearly 50 years then resurface in a dump.

This beautiful train graveyard is one of the largest collections of steam locomotives in the Mediterranean and Europe.

Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet your wish will be granted.

1513 Turkish world map, full of European state secrets and snarky commentary.

The legendary luxury train passage is commemorated with a charming museum inside its former eastern terminus.

Taking the subway here means doing so over a bridge located in the middle of an estuary.

This shuttered power plant is now Turkey's first industrial archaeology museum.

Large miniature theme park with 100-plus models.