Lehigh Valley barge No. 79 still gets tugged along - but now it houses a museum and unusual performances.

Where infamous mobster and leader of Murder Inc. Albert Anastasia made his home.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

An experimental, community court opened in 2000 takes a new approach to youth offenders in south Brooklyn.

School named after its beloved principal, killed in the cross-fire of a drug related shooting.

Compensation for the destruction of a historic shipyard.

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

Red Hook's massive public pool, built by Robert Moses.

A community farm in the midst of the Brooklyn concrete.

The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

A one-ton statue of Steve Rogers beautifies the entry to a Brooklyn Bed, Bath & Beyond.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

The only depiction of Abraham Lincoln holding a weapon, and the names of all 9,000 Cuyahoga veterans of the Civil War.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.

A grandiose title could not save this mercantile community from obscurity.

This restaurant proudly displays bread signed by the 39th president.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.