This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.

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

On the hills of Bay Ridge stands a house straight out of a fairy tale.

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

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

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

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

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

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

The last of Amsterdam's original sea level markers remaining in place.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan was a training hub for aircraft carrier pilots during WWII.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

An abandoned subway tunnel that could have reinvigorated Staten Island still lies somewhere beneath this Brooklyn park.

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

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.