The West's first incursion into the Afghan world lies buried beneath a military base.

The masses at this church incorporate enough moonshine and animal sacrifice that they are no longer recognizably Catholic.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.

The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

This metallic stampede sits frozen on a Washington ridge yet the artist's vision is still incomplete.

A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

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

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

Neoclassical bank designed by NY architects Helmle & Huberty.

The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.

Historic Greenpoint theater, turned roller disco, now housing a chain pharmacy store.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

Self-sufficient greenhouse floating on the Hudson River.

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.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

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.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.