These century-old townhouses contain some of the first car garages built in the United States.

This family-owned bakery is one of the last places in Brooklyn to sell the Nation of Islam–inspired bean pie.

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

The helicopter that "Tricky Dick" absconded from the White House in on his last day in office.

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

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

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

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.

After surviving abandonment, this powerful Latin American mural is alive again.

The first integrated firehouse in Atlanta houses a museum on the history of desegregation in the city's fire department.

A local dive where religious kitsch, Southern identity, and queer culture collide.

A colorful square marks the heart of the city's LGBTQ community.

This Art-Deco movie palace is the oldest independent cinema in Atlanta.

Chefs from Tibet's Kham region offer steaming meat pies and noodle soups in this nook behind a jewelry store.

Snack on a partially gestated duck egg.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

This New York holdover was built to provide housing for shopgirls and still does not allow men above the lobby.

The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.