On this island, you suck away your garbage via an elaborate pneumatic tube system.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

A band of aerialists and circus performers putting on incredible shows in East Williamsburg.

A massive art collective tries a new take on Brooklyn's DIY music scene—by making it fully legal.

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

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

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

As telephones become more essential and less stylish one historic Brooklyn building remembers the days when they were a grand celebration of communication.

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.

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

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

This impressive mansion in Vinegar Hill has some mysterious details in its architecture.

Abandoned 19th century homes once occupied by naval officers, soon to be demolished.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

A suburban street in Anchorage doubles as a runway, and each home has its own airplane hangar.

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

A high school astronomy enthusiast designed this model of our solar system to be traversed on foot.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

Abandoned rock quarry now a haven for mountain bikers and hikers.