Where the embers of the Big Bang were first detected.

Rusting away on the edge of New Jersey are the remains of a Cold War missile launch site.

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Narrowest house in Boston.

One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.

The first pet cemetery in the United States.

The "Skinny House" is made from scrap, salvage, and a neighbor’s kindness.

Self-sufficient greenhouse floating on the Hudson River.

An abandoned horticulture institute gloomily presides over rows of derelict and vine-wrought greenhouses.

A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.

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

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

Where America's first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Staten Island's original central park is the former home of the city water supply as well as thousands of immigrant graves.

During the American Revolution, this mansion hosted failed peace talks between the British and Americans.

One-time largest man-made structure in the world will be a park in 30 years.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

Final resting place of two dozen New York City harbor ships.

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.