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

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

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

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

A hidden architectural treasure in New York's Brooklyn.

A cargo of beautiful music.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

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

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

If all members were present at the table, a sixth of the world's wealth would be under the same roof.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

After just one epic test blast, this literal loose cannon proved too explosive for combat.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.