As telephones become more essential and less stylish one historic Brooklyn building remembers the days when they were a grand celebration of communication.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

A no-frills cinephile haven known for showing offbeat, underseen films.

All of the Malaysian sweets at this shop are made daily with a whole lot of love.

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

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

Take in a rare, face-to-face glimpse of Lady Liberty at this tucked away Red Hook park.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

This monument pays tribute to the city’s contribution to basketball history.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

Niagara Falls holds a special place in Nikola Tesla's history, so they put a statue on it.

Rusty red sands line the shores of this Canadian Province.

A posthumous honor at the iconic game show host's former high school.

Possibly the world's largest coin stands just outside of a Canadian science center.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.

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

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

Learn about the last river many crossed to find freedom from slavery in the United States.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.