The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

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

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

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

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

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

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

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

The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

A museum of memories in what was once one of the most violent cities in the world.

Once home to an aristocratic family and a workers' organization, this intricately tiled building now houses a chain restaurant.

Beneath the most controversial monument in Mexico City is a cultural center that exhibits only digital art.

The Mexican painter Diego Rivera created this unusual museum to display his collection of pre-Hispanic artifacts.

Where layer cakes tower above one’s head and there is never a shortage of icing.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses separated by a bridge.

66,000 pieces of art, donated by one of the world's richest men.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

A flooded Mexican cave that hides a river beneath the water.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.