The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

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

Color-coded signs direct drivers on a network of routes designed to avoid Pittsburgh traffic.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

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

This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

Inside a humble hangar is some of the best roller derby the world has to offer.

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

This beautifully verdant lagoon is tucked below a massive volcano in a crater atop a black pebble beach.

Red frames showcase remnants of one of New York's original subway stations.

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 wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

Here be dragons.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

The most confusing clock in New York.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.