A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

A prohibition era watering hole for the police.

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

This humble historic facade hides a history of boozing and the gentlemanly sport of rat-fighting.

An informal walk of fame in front of a Hollywood office building remembers a comedic great and his associates.

This kaleidoscopic mural shows Bob Dylan throughout his transition from young troubadour to Nobel laureate.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

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

Twenty-three trees, each paired with a basalt stone, line a street in Chelsea, continuing an urban project started by German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys.

One of the largest public housing complexes in New York once visited by Eleanor Roosevelt.

The unassuming structure was part of a Major League Baseball stadium.

Once home to the country's most gargantuan ships, this graving dock now waits for people to buy furniture.

The return of something once considered a basic part of life.

Compensation for the destruction of a historic shipyard.

A community farm in the midst of the Brooklyn concrete.

Love is in the air along the small street in Brooklyn.

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

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.

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

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.